Re: 7.5.2 and MacPPP

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From: John Norstad
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:00

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In article <chad-1609951259240001@pengar.com>, chad@pengar.com (Chad
Leigh) wrote:

> I ONLY move the TCP/IP and MacTCP CP in and out of a folder to activate
> one or the other.  I DO NOT remove the library files.  (They only get
> called when someone needs them -- they do not load anything themselves).

Watch out - both NewsWatcher and the new Fetch 30.b6, which are OT-aware,
will blow up if you do this. The reason is that because you didn't remove
the two IP libraries, they think OT is installed, and they try to use it.
But because you removed the TCP/IP control panel and are using MacTCP
instead, everything blows up.

If you remove the two libraries in addition to removing the TCP/IP control
panel, NewsWatcher and Fetch and other properly written OT-aware programs
will properly detect that OT is not installed, and they will use MacTCP
instead, which will work.

-- 
John Norstad
Academic Technologies
Northwestern University
j-norstad@nwu.edu
<http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu/jln/jln.html>

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From: j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Subject: Re: 7.5.2 and MacPPP
Date: 1995/09/16
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