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From: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu (David R  Falkenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Electronic mail using EtherTalk and SMTP
Summary: Why not use MacTCP instead once it's available
Message-ID: <3fb3f279.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 88 16:34:00 GMT
References: <1988Nov11.150011.11328@LTH.Se>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Lines: 44

In article <1988Nov11.150011.11328@LTH.Se>, newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server) writes:
> Subj: Elektronic mail using EtherTalk and SMTP
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We are working on a project for Lund University Computing Center in 
> Sweden concerning electronic mail between Macintosh and the World. 
> On Mac, the interface will be in ordinary Macintosh style.
> 
  <Stuff deleted>
> 
> We have the source for NCSA Telnet, and are planning to use the 
> TCP/IP part from this source implementing SMTP.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Roland Mansson, Lund University Computing Center, Box 783, S220 07 Lund, Sweden
> Phone: +46-46107436   Fax: +46-46138225   Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52
> Internet: roland_m@ldc.lu.se   or   roland_m%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net
> UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!enea!ldc.lu.se!roland_m    AppleLink: SW0022

 Why not use Apple's new MacTCP product instead of NCSA's code?
 The problem with using Application Resident TCP/IP is that you
 can't run more than one TCP/IP program at a time.  Here at U of M
 we were running MacNFS (developed here) and also wanted to use
 NCSA Telnet at the same time-- unfdortunately the UM MacIP stuff
 loads at boot and the NCSA kernel loads whenever you run the program
 and is GONE afterwards-- each driver was incompatible with the
 other & thus you couldn't run telnet & be using MacNFS at the same
 time.

 Other useful useful utilities are being built with MacTCP and you'd
 hate to make your package incompatible with them.

 NOTE:  I'm not saying to wait for MacTCP to start working OR not
        to use NCSA's code as a temporary solution, but think about
        making your code so that it can be recompiled to utilize MacTCP.

-dave falkenburg


-- 
Dave Falkenburg @ University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network
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