Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!falken From: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu (David R Falkenburg) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Macintosh TCP/IP, what is there? Summary: MacTCP and Kinetics TCPort are avaiable Message-ID: <3fc47e41.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu> Date: 19 Nov 88 23:32:00 GMT References: <1988Nov11.150011.11328@LTH.Se> <3fb3f279.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> <17437@santra.UUCP> Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich. Lines: 40 In article <17437@santra.UUCP>, jpm@sauna.cs.hut.fi (Jussi-Pekka Mantere) writes: > In article <3fb3f279.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> David R Falkenburg > writes: > < Stuff about developing TCP/IP software on a Mac deleted > > > Why not use Apple's new MacTCP product instead of NCSA's code? > Has it been released already? I've heard rumours about it, but could > you give some details about it? Hopefully > - it supports "BSD-style" TCP/IP, > - one can program with it using MPW or other enviroments (LightSpeed), > - there is an "official" Apple guide concerning TCP/IP... > > Apparently Kinetics has a similar product out, called "TCPort Toolkit", > with BSD 4.3 sockets and a C programming library. > > >-dave falkenburg > > Chape > > -- > Jussi-Pekka Mantere jpm@cs.hut.fi > Helsinki University of Technology, Finland jpm@finhutcs.bitnet > Laboratory of Information Processing Science + 358 0 451 3231 What I know about MacTCP: Apple currently has no plans for berkley sockets ( ^ THIS IS STUPID and we should all let Apple know) It is written in assembly language and Apple will provide support for using it with MPW-based developemnt environments No official books and or documentation has been released to the general public. Kinetics TCPort DOES have a BSD socket library, and is based on the coding done here at university of michigan... -dave "it's all i know for now" falkenburg -- Dave Falkenburg @ University of Michigan Computer Aided Engineering Network ARPA: falken@caen.engin.umich.edu UUCP: umix!caen.engin.umich.edu!falken