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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Comm Toolbox: Hypothetical questions
Message-ID: <10478@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 89 02:29:32 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Here are some questions/comments that I have about the Communications Toolbox.
Maybe someone out there can come up with some good hypothetical answers and
comments.

1.  Would it be possible to write an application using two connection tools,
    say ADSP and LAT, so that one connection just relayed data to the other?
    Since it has been pointed out that the LAT tool will not work over
    LocalTalk, it sure would be nice to find a cheap and easy way to
    accomplish this (with one Ethernet card and the Internet router).

2.  When MacX ships, it will have a MacTCP tools to connect to Unix machines,
    I would assume.  But what about connecting to a VMS machine to run
    a DECwindows session?  Does AppleTalk for VMS play some role in this?
    How?

3.  Has anyone considered that maybe FTP is not a very good file tranfer
    protocol?  If it is so much trouble to implenent (hypothetically -- I
    don't have the slightest idea), maybe you are looking in the wrong place
    for the problem.

4.  How about using the ADSP tool to connect to an A/UX machine (since it
    already knows AppleTalk, it may already be able to handle this).  If I
    could manage this, I could always use Telnet from there.  (So it is a bit
    of a round-about way.  So is a box that just sits there stripping AppleTalk
    headers from TCP/IP packets...)

So it is finals week here, and I am trying to waste some time...  Anyway, any
idea when we will see the final version of the CommToolbox?  I would like to get
my hands on a good set of documentation and sample code (1.0B2 just didn't cut
it).  Maybe by the time it comes out, I will have amply time to play with it.
(I graduate in May -- any jobs out there?  If I don't find one, I'll have all
kinds of time.)

-Michael


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