Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cc.curtin.edu.au!chooper From: chooper@cc.curtin.edu.au (Todd Hooper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: MacTCP applications: What's good, what's bad, what's where? Message-ID: <1991May30.123805.8504@cc.curtin.edu.au> Date: 30 May 91 04:38:05 GMT References: Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 49 In article , ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes: > So what's out there to do what? What's good? What's not so good? I'm > looking for ANYTHING that uses MacTCP; commercial stuff is not excepted > (though it may lose out to freeware sometimes). Well, I've got a couple. Most are pretty standard but here goes anyway - BYU Telnet - this has some probs with Sys7 - you can't access the Apple menu whilst BYU is in the foreground. Otherwise it is great. The ftp server mode is neat but could do with some more security options. XferIt 1.4 - this is probably the best FTP client I've seen, although it still needs a tiny bit of work. Works fine with Sys 7. HyperFTP 1.4b3 - before Xferit, this was the best FTP client. Works ok with HC 2.0. Eudora - a great POP client from Steve Dorner at U of Illinois. Some slight quirks with Sys 7 but nothing major. LeeMail - an SMTP mailer - very simple and it crashes SE's. Great for testing mailers if nothing else. Mews - a Hypercard based POP/News client - it seemed to crash lots under Sys 6 and I guess it would be similar under Sys 7! The News 1.4 - an NNTP client. Almost good enough to convince me to give up reading News on the mainframe here. Has mail support as well. PSIWP - X.500 White Pages client - very interesting. FTP from uu.psi.com under the directory wp. TCP Play - an Apple product which lets you play sounds over the network from a Unix host to a Mac. FTP'able from apple.com last time I checked. Most of these are available via ftp from info-mac. I've yet to see - - a finger client - a talk client/server -- Todd Hooper (Postmaster) Computing Centre Curtin University of Technology Western Australia Internet : hooper_ta@cc.curtin.edu.au Phone : +61 9 351 7467 (24 hour messaging system) Fax +61 9 351 2673