Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!daveg@Apple.com From: daveg@Apple.com (Dave Green) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: MacTCP applications: What's good, what's bad, what's where? Message-ID: <13841@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 3 Jun 91 17:16:03 GMT References: <1991May30.123805.8504@cc.curtin.edu.au> <6911@husc6.harvard.edu> <1991Jun2.012934.7825@midway.uchicago.edu> <16513@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Distribution: na Organization: Apple Lines: 23 In the latest issue of develop Magazine, they cover MacTCP development. one of the examples is an MPW tool which implements the FINGER command. The same article has source for NNTP and FTP capabilities which are worked into an application called NewsWatcher. It is a very nice application for reading news. I'm using it right now. Dave d, can I >contribute to this discussion :) > >I'm surprised that amongst all the discussion of Pipkins, Pogle's Wood, >The Herbs, Hector's House and so on that nobody has seen fit to discuss >something of even greater vintage - Larry The Lamb. Any comments? I can only >vaguely remember seeing it on a few occasions when I was very young. What >was his pal the dog called? Er - isn't that Larry the Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamb? His chum vas Dennis the Dachshund, nein? I remember these from radio (we didn't have television). I think the narrator was David Davies - the series was called "Tales from Toytown" or somesuch.