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ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Does anybody know the status of commodore's ETHERNET board and software?
>We are planning to buy an A2000HD and want to hook up to Ethernet to use
>Telnet and FTP. I called Commodore, but I was unable to reach anyone who
>had any idea what I was talking about. Will the Commodore software, when and if
>it comes out, support Telnet and FTP?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Richard Gerber
>
>Physics Department
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>gerber@rigel.astro.uiuc.edu
>

He also writes:

>Re: my last note asking for help about Ethernet, FTP and telnet.
>
>Thanks, but I am no longer in need of this info. Whereas I couldn't get any
>info from Commodore about it, I did speak to Dale Luck (of GfxBase),
>who knew more than the C= reps.
>It seems the NFS-TCP/IP software is supposed to be out at the end of the
>month, and should do everything I need. Dale assured me that the software
>was going to be "good stuff"! This really sounds like good news.
>
>Richard Gerber

The commodore TCP/IP software will allow you to do rlogin, telnet, and ftp
operations across a network.  It is currently in use throughout Commodore
for those exact things, plus others.  As to the delivery date, well, as
everyone on the net knows, we ain't allowed to talk about that. ;^)

			-- Kevin --


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Kevin Klop		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!kevin
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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		- Bill and Ted's most excellent adventure

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