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From: kazim@Apple.COM (Alex Kazim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Communications Toolbox questions
Summary: How did all this get started...
Keywords: CommToolbox, TCP, LAN
Message-ID: <37412@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 23:38:20 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <17984@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) writes:
>serial port -- I want CTB to let me use my AppleTalk network connection
>as a (superior) substitute for a serial line.  My Mac is on a network

It can do this.
Really.

The CommToolbox itself is putting out a minimal set of tools for a
number of reasons: Marketing, Developer Relations, and Resource
Allocation.  

Let's see what other teams at Apple are doing (BTW, these were announced
in June '89)
- Mac X (using the CommToolbox to talk to a MacTCP tool).  Gee whiz
- MacX25 (includes a MacPAD tool).  I use this to talk thru TELENET
to Dow Jones.  Well, Mr Matthews, is this what you need?
- DEC LAT (I use this to talk to VMS machines.  Fast.)

Not announced, but I've been told I can talk about: 
- ADSP tool.  Mac to Mac and works like a charm. 

I'm not sure where everyone got the idea that this is a "modem"
toolbox.  As you can see by the above products, we not only handle
other protocols, but "gracefully" so.

Did all this start because someone thought an FTP tool is impossible?
If so, let's keep the discussion there.

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Alex Kazim, Apple Computer
Bo knows programming.
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