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From: magnus@ikaros.cs.umu.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Transferring Files between Macs over AppleTalk: possible?
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Date: 21 Nov 88 11:45:42 GMT
References: <782@tank.uchicago.edu> <19235@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <10980@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <832@tank.uchicago.edu>
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In article <832@tank.uchicago.edu> her3@tank.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Ben 'Drew' Herman) writes:
> 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?????
>

Unfortunately (?) this won't work. This would need some kind of prompt-based
interpreter at the other end to process your requests. Actually, NCSA Telnet
supports this, but only when running ftp from another machine. This means that
you CAN use NCSA Telnet to send files over AppleTalk, but you will have
to use another machine in between (AND also binhex the files, since ftp
(naturally) only sends the data fork of the mac file).

There's another point to this also: if you're running NCSA Telnet, and your
hard disk suddenly starts spinning, that's probably somebody taking a look at
your files...! (Hey! Where's the file protection? :-) )

Then, one wonders, hasn't anybody done ftp for the mac??? "ftp DA", yessss,
that one I would like to see next time I pull down my apple!

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Magnus Astrom, Dept. of Info. Proc., Univ. of Umea, S-90187 Umea, Sweden
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