erick@sunee.waterloo.edu (Erick Engelke) (04/18/91)
Archive-name: internet/msdos/wattcp/0-- Archive-directory: sunee.uwaterloo.ca:/pub/wattcp/ [129.97.128.196] Original-posting-by: erick@sunee.waterloo.edu (Erick Engelke) Original-subject: Re: NCSA vs CUTCP. What's the difference? Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Apr17.101536@fuggles.acc.Virginia.EDU> marc writes: >... >But if you need to do something special-purpose with it (port >whois or webster or finger or add a new way of getting the >workstation's IP address or whatever), you can't. And with NCSA's >product (that's what we were comparing it to, right?), you can. > People interested in developing new applications might wish to look at Waterloo TCP. It's BSD UNIX-similar and applications can be easily adapted to or from any of the commercial stacks. FINGER, REXEC, and several other applications have already been ported and typically with far less code that is necessary with NCSA. Our PING, LPR, FINGER, and other programs are also far smaller than NCSA, typically less than 30K. Source for the applications code is available via anonymous FTP to sunee.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.128.196] in pub/wattcp/*.arc and an in-depth manual is available at a fee. There is no licensing fee or royalties. Details of the mailing list are included in the archive files. Source code for the TCP libraries themselves is not available publicly, but the project is under active development so any bug reports are explored. Erick -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erick Engelke Watstar Computer Network Watstar Network Guy University of Waterloo Erick@Development.Watstar.UWaterloo.ca (519) 885-1211 Ext. 2965 -- comp.archives file verification sunee.uwaterloo.ca total 197 -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 2317 Mar 4 14:07 answers -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 116543 Mar 19 03:33 apps.arc drwxr-xr-x 2 134 101 512 Mar 25 03:09 beta -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 31565 Mar 19 03:33 lib.arc -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 12242 Mar 20 03:58 pkxarc.com -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 2062 Mar 11 15:45 readme -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 628 Mar 20 04:12 readme.1st -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 14438 Mar 19 03:33 src.arc drwxrwxrwx 2 134 101 512 Mar 14 19:11 uploads -rw-r--r-- 1 134 101 1229 Mar 23 04:34 wattcp.cfg found wattcp ok sunee.uwaterloo.ca:/pub/wattcp/