lister@ncsa.uiuc.EDU (Tim K telnet use) (10/05/87)
New software for free . . . The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has good news and more good news for Macintosh and PC TCP/IP users. New version 2.0 of NCSA Telnet for the PC New version 2.0 of NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh New hardware support in testing Mailing list for telnet related questions/bugs (telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu) User/Developer forum at TCP/IP conference in December SOURCE CODE coming soon! On November 1, NCSA will release full source code to version 2.1 of NCSA Telnet for the PC and Macintosh. Anyone may use, modify and redistribute this code subject to the licensing (not-for-profit) statement included with the source. We will redistribute contributed source code on an ongoing basis. Version 2.0 of NCSA Telnet is available now -- availability information is appended to this note. We have many new features, including Tektronix 4014 emulation. Previous bug on PCs and XTs is gone. The pre-printed manual has been completely re-written and is worth the $20. We are sponsoring a mailing list for people interested in keeping up with the NCSA Telnet distribution and the various groups taking part in future development. The address is telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Send a message to telnet-request@ncsa.uiuc.edu to get on the list. For the PC, we have a driver for the MICOM NI5210 (not the NI5010) board, which has a list price of $395.00 and a driver for the Ungermann-Bass (IBM) NIC Ethernet board. These drivers won't be included until version 2.1 but may be available upon request. For the Macintosh, we are testing a version which uses Apple's new EtherTalk driver directly. This is not in version 2.0, but will be in 2.1. There will be a meeting at Advanced Computing Environment's TCP/IP conference in December. I will discuss user problems and the status of various development projects. This will be a good time to ask technical questions. Thanks for your interest, some details follow the signature, Tim Krauskopf National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of Illinois timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (ARPA) timk%newton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (alternate) 14013@ncsavmsa (BITNET) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fact Sheet ---------- National Center for Supercomputing Applications presents: NCSA Telnet for the PC, version 2.0 NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh, version 2.0 These programs are copyrighted, but distributed in binary form with no license fee. Source code will be available on November 1. Features included in version 2.0 of NCSA Telnet: ----------------------------------------------- DARPA standard telnet Built-in standard FTP server for file transfer VT102 emulation in multiple, simultaneous sessions Class A,B and C addressing with standard subnetting Tektronix 4014 graphics emulation Scrollback for each session Each session in a different window (Macintosh) Supports Croft gateway - KIP (Macintosh) Capture text to a file (PC) Full color support (PC) How to obtain: ------------- 1) From a friend The disk, documentation and files may be copied freely and distributed in binary form, unmodified, with copyright notices intact. This distribution is free and no copies may be sold for profit. 2) Anonymous FTP from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in the NCSA subdirectory. The PC version is a tar file which contain binary files. There is also a compressed tar file with the same contents. After the files are extracted from the tar file, some binary transfer (e.g. kermit, NCSA Telnet) should be used to download the files to the PC. The documentation is in line printer format. The Macintosh version is in the NCSA/Mac subdirectory and consists of several files encoded with BinHex 4.0 and/or Pack-It. You may want to consult the READ.ME file to determine which files to download. Download them with a binary transfer method (kermit, NCSA Telnet) and use BinHex 4.0 and/or Pack-It to extract the files. The documentation is in Microsoft Word 3.0 format. 3) Diskette On-disk copies, with a printed manual are available for $20 each, which covers materials, handling and postage. Orders can only be accepted if accompanied by a check made out to the University of Illinois. Send to: NCSA Telnet orders (specify PC or Macintosh version) 152 Computing Applications Building 605 E. Springfield Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 Hardware required: ----------------- PC: IBM PC,XT, AT or compatible. 3COM 3C501 Etherlink board. IBM RT PC Baseband adapter support soon. Ungermann-Bass NIC board support soon. MICOM NI5210 Ethernet board support soon. Mac: Macintosh 512K, Plus, SE or Macintosh II. Kinetics, Inc. FastPath, EtherSC or Etherport SE. Kinetics gateway software or Stanford KIP (Croft) gateway software. Support soon for Apple EtherTalk board and software for the Macintosh II. The best source of information about Kinetics is directly from the company. Kinetics Inc. FastPath approx. $2500 Suite 110 EtherSC approx. $1250 2500 Camino Diablo EtherPort SE approx. $800 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 (415) 947-0998 Mailing List: ------------ Mail to telnet-request@ncsa.uiuc.edu to be added to the list of recipients. To post messages to the list, mail to telnet@ncsa.uiuc.edu. If your mailer cannot resolve ncsa.uiuc.edu, route mail through uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, also known as uiucuxc.arpa. Other questions: --------------- mail to telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu (alternate: telbug%ncsa@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu)