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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: System 7, Telnet, GatorBox
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Date: 14 Jun 91 18:16:39 GMT
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In article <24495@natinst.natinst.com> 
           brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell) writes:
> a2mp@PSUORADM.CC.PDX.EDU (Michael Perrone) writes:
> > I must
> > wonder why, brian, you must use NCSA Telnet 2.3? It's easy enough to
> > order a copy of MacTCP (and though MacTCP needs to be rev'd for system
> > 7, it will work with system 7 if you have VM turned off, and keep
> > it in the root level of system folder with an alias in the control
> > panels folder) and telnet 2.4b11 has many bug fixes from the 2.3 version.
> > Not only that, but MacTCP has much greater throughput than the
> > 'builtin' TCP/IP protocol stack implementation in 2.3.
> 
>      Well, it's not a matter of $100 for a single copy of MacTCP.  It's a
> matter of $2500 for a site license for MacTCP.  As someone else has pointed
> out on this list, Cayman has a license to distribute MacTCP, and the license
> seems to cover anyone sitting behind a GatorBox.  (I.e., almost a site
> license, for free.)

Um, I suspect that the "someone else" you are refering to was me, because I  
haven't seen articles from anyone else talking about Cayman and a license for  
distributing MacTCP.

If you are refering to me, you misunderstood what I said.  I did not say that  
Cayman *has* a license to distribute MacTCP (I don't know if they have one or  
not), but that I believe they could get one.  By doing that they could  
effectively solve the problem in very short order by distributing MacTCP to  
their customers.  It requires that they spend some $$$ for the license, but  
IMHO their customers would be much better off with MacTCP and the newest  
version of NCSA Telnet than they would be with a Gatorbox fix and the much  
older version of NCSA Telnet.

Another thing you might want to check out is getting a site license for  
Versaterm.  I have no idea how much that would cost, but you'd end up with  
MacTCP for everyone as well as the capabilities of Versaterm.  Presumably there  
are other products where you could get a site license and get MacTCP as part of  
the other product.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA