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From: her3@tank.uchicago.edu (Ben 'Drew' Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Transferring Files between Macs over AppleTalk: possible?
Message-ID: <832@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 88 17:09:22 GMT
References: <782@tank.uchicago.edu> <19235@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <10980@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: her3@tank.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Ben 'Drew' Herman)
Organization: University of Chicago
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In article <10980@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>In article <19235@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>>I just  recieved version of 2.2 of NCSA telnet.  It seems to work over
>>appletalk or ethernet.  Does someone in the know , know if two machines
>>running telnet will solve the file transfer problem?
>
>     The problem with this program is that it does not allow the
>Macintosh end of the program to initiate ftp transfers.  You must
>start up ftp from a system with a command line user interface, then
>ftp to the Mac.  From this point, all transfers are implemented by
>entering a command to the ftp running on the non-Macintosh host.
>
 I'm not really sure on this point But.....
Since NCSA telnet Dynamically assigns IP numbers couldn't you 
start NCSA telnet on two machines
  find out what one machines IP is
then , open a connection to that IP?????

Yeah your right, there's probably no way in hell that would work....
but I'll try it this weekend any way.....

Ben


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