tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) (11/22/85)
I must apologize to those people who expected my new TFTP and TELNET
Appletalk programs this week. Although the programs are completed and ready
to go, and have been for several weeks, there has been a delay in wiring an
office for Appletalk. The office moved from one floor to another (an
amazing sight, I assure you) at the start of November, and I was told that
the Appletalk wire would be run into the new office by the beginning of the
second week of November, but this has still not been done. The person
responsible for this delay has been requested once again to do his work,
which should take less than an hour, and as soon as he does it I will upload
the sources and programs, archive them, and post them to net.sources.mac .
By the way, contrary to a new popular myth, Mac sources are much larger than
binhexed binaries.
Although the sources are rather large, about 12,000 lines, I have decided to
post them because of the common complaint that not enough sources get posted
to net.sources.mac, a complaint that I agree with. Unfortunately, they are
in Lisa Pascal, a decision that was made before I took over the project, but
Lisa Pascal is very C-like (even to the point of having an address operator,
and return, break, and continue statements.)
For those in the dark on this: TFTP is a program which transfers files using
ARPA protocols. TELNET is a remote terminal service program, again using
ARPA protocols. These run on Appletalk and Ethernet, using the Stanford
Ethernet-Appletalk Gateway (Seagate). TELNET currently emulates a DEC VT100
terminal.
Documentation of higher quality than my second-draft documentation is being
written by someone else at the Center. For now, you will have to live with
my puerile scribblings.
-=-
Tim Maroney, CMU Center for Art and Technology
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