Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!midway!news From: mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu (Tom McDougal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: MacTCP applications: What's good, what's bad, what's where? Message-ID: <1991Jun2.012934.7825@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 2 Jun 91 01:29:34 GMT Article-I.D.: midway.1991Jun2.012934.7825 References: <1991May30.123805.8504@cc.curtin.edu.au> <6911@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Distribution: na Organization: University of Chicago Computer Science Lines: 34 In article <6911@husc6.harvard.edu> conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) writes: ><1991May30.123805.8504@cc.curtin.edu.au> chooper@cc.curtin.edu.au (Todd Hooper): > >>I've yet to see - >> >> - a finger client >> - a talk client/server > >I have mentioned the SuperServer/Client DA combination here previously.... It >provides _general_ access to various Internet services. I.e., it is not a fin- >ger client per se, but rather a client of any of a rather broad class of ser- >vices that can be "published" by _any_ user of a SuperServer-equipped UNIX box. >So, you can use a DA as a whois, finger, who, nslookup, etc. client.... > >You can get the SuperServer/Client pair from ssyx.ucsc.edu. I just fetched this stuff by FTP and w/in an astoundingly short time got it up and running, and this is cool. Even before I got the server running on a local machine, I was able to use the Client DA on my Mac to finger someone here using the server on ssyx.ucsc.edu. The response was pretty fast. Once I started a local server (& I'm no superuser), finger, who, etc. was really fast. The only drawbacks I have noticed so far are 1) I can't seem to compile it on our Sun 3 (but I haven't tried very hard); 2) It is restricted to programs that can work through a pipe, hence programs like talk that require a tty don't work. -Tom (mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu)