Fw: Announce: MacMiNT TCP, patchlevel 01

["Peter Ross" <pross@soho.ios.com>]

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> From: Rob Pelkey <rpelkey@abacus.bates.edu>
> To: pross@soho.ios.com
> Subject: Announce: MacMiNT TCP, patchlevel 01
> Date: Thursday, December 05, 1996 1:26 PM
> 
> Hello all...
> 
> For the curious, MacMiNT TCP patchlevel 01 is now available.  This is my
> MacTCP driver for MacMiNT, which is built as a protocol stack within Kay
> Roemer's MintNet sockets module.
> 
> 
> New features added in this only partially debugged, still very alpha
> release:
> 
> * Now works, to a certain degree.  Have fun seeing how far your favorite
>   MintNet apps go before no longer responding.  Removing the bugs is left
>   as an execrise for the user, even though I will end up doing this
myself
>   eventually.  :-)
> 
> * Now safe for use with virtual memory.
> 
> * libmac16.olb (the Toolbox interface library) no longer needs to be
>   linked in at compile time - this cuts down on the size of the
executable
>   by over 60%!
> 
> * Lots of little errors rectified.  Lots of huge ones, too.  :-)
> 
> 
> Things that still need to be fixed:
> 
> * Numerous bugs, of various degrees of severity.
> 
> * Broken DNS support (not working because of bugs in the UDP code).
> 
> * Source code is ugly.
> 
> * Broken SOCK_RAW (i.e. ping) support (fixing this is a low priority).
> 
> Since I am presently in the middle of final exams for this term, I won't
> be able to work on these fixes until my Christmas break, about two weeks
> from now. 
> 
> 
> The distribution is available now at:
> 
>     ftp://rpelkey.bates.edu/pub/macmint/tcp/macmint-tcp-pl01.tar.gz
> 
> I haven't uploaded it to Suniams because it's still not fully functional
> yet, and because I need to clean up the source distribution before making
> a general release.  
> 
> If you feel like helping out with debugging, I encourage you to download
> the sources and play around with them.  I can give clues as to exactly
> where the bugs may lie, if you wish. 
> 
> Enjoy... 
> 
> 							Rob
> 
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