Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: MAC/IP Message-ID: <6985@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 13 Apr 89 20:38:17 GMT References: <752@kinetics.UUCP> <1123@lts.UUCP> <4319@wilbur.unix.ETA.COM> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 24 My own TELNET/FTP/modem terminal program, TOPS Terminal, is supposedly available from OSU, but TOPS refuses to tell me any details as to how they are distributing the product I worked for two and a half years to create. It is supposedly controlled freeware. It comes with a very robust TCP/IP protocol suite which loads at INIT time and is accessible through a glue library. The interface is based on the recommended TCP and IP interfaces in the defining RFCs. It's compatible with Appletalk, Ethernet, and modems (though it doesn't do SLIP -- it has a conventional view of the modem, implementing XMODEM and ordinary full-duplex terminal services). It will work with or without KIP, and comes with a CDEV called Kipper that lets a Mac act as a KIP server even when the gateway runs pre-KIP software. It also has a script language, graph structutred on-line documentation, a built-in text editor, OS-independent control characters, and a slew of other nifty features, and has been the subject of innumerable hours of quality assurance testing. Call TOPS for more information, and if you find out anything, please let me know. -- Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim "Everything that gives us pleasure gives us pain to measure it by." -- The Residents, GOD IN THREE PERSONS