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Re: System 7, Telnet, GatorBox

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From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 07:45
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In article <9106131900.AA06617@midway.cayman.com> 
           chris@CAYMAN.COM (Chris North) writes:
>   [discussion of Telnet 2.3 having problems with GatorBoxes
>    under system 7 due to whatever the cause was...]
> 
>   Again I want to stress to you that this is a serious issue and
> that we will address it as soon as we can. I appreciate your patience 
> and please feel free to contact me with any further questions or
> problems that you may have.
> 
>   Anyone else on this mailing list who has encountered this problem
> should send their email address to me so that I can notify you 
> when we resolve the problem.

In a sense we've encountered this problem here, but we solve it by simply  
switching to the newer version of NCSA Telnet which works with MacTCP.  While  
the licensing for MacTCP is always an interesting discussion (every time I ask  
for "the facts" I get ten different answers), I believe one thing you (Cayman)  
could do is just license MacTCP from Apple so you can distribute it with your  
products.  Then people who need NCSA Telnet could just use the most recent  
version instead of an older, bugger, dumber version of that program.

There are so many products using MacTCP that it's really nice to have it around  
anyway.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA
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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
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Subject: Re: System 7, Telnet, GatorBox
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