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From: johnroc@cats.ucsc.edu (John Rocchio, (x3511))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacTCP applications: What's good, what's bad, what's where?
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Date: 2 Jun 91 18:09:52 GMT
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In article <1991Jun2.012934.7825@midway.uchicago.edu> mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu (Tom McDougal) writes:

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>>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)

The newest version (1.4) of the wonderful server software has just
recently been posted to comp.sources.reviewed.  I will hopefully get it
on the ssyx machine very soon.  The Mac client is on ssyx, but I have
had trouble getting it to work under System 7.0 :-(  I mailed the
author and hopefully a fix is on the way.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
John Rocchio 
Workstation Consultant 
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz