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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacTCP info?
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.150944.15296@intercon.com>
Date: 2 Feb 90 15:09:44 GMT
References: <2687@sunny.software.org>
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Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA
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In article <2687@sunny.software.org>, antonson@software.org (Todd Antonson)
writes:
> Does anybody know about MacTCP?  What it is and how does it differ from,
> say, the Kinetics software or other communication software?  

MacTCP is a driver (and associated cdev) that provides Macintosh applications
with access to basic TCP/IP services.  It is not an application itself--it's
a method for multiple applications (or DAs, or INITs) to all use TCP/IP without
having to each include an implementation of the TCP/IP protocol stack.
Kinetics' TCPort driver has a similar purpose.

To actually use MacTCP you need additional software, such as NCSA Telnet
2.3, InterCon TCP/Connect, or one of the growing number of HyperCard stacks
that use XCMDs to talk to the driver.  This is part of the reason that MacTCP
is being sold strictly as a devloper or OEM product.

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

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