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From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis)
Subject: Re: New XferIt Mac FTP Client Available
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 02:46:32 GMT

Bernie Bernstein <bernard@cs.colorado.edu> writes:
>If you have MacTCP in the System Folder with an alias in Control Panels,
>the XferIt 1.3 will fail to find MacTCP.  So you should put MacTCP in
>the System Folder AND in Control Panels (not an alias) so MacTCP will
>work with all programs that search in either place for it.
>
>Eventually, all programs will work with MacTCP in just the Control Panels
>folder (maybe).  So we are now in the changover process where we need to
>accommodate programs that work either way until they are all recompiled
>using the newer libraries.

It should be pointed out that there are calls to resolve aliases under
system 7 -- will XferIt be adding these calls anytime soon?  Or is
this buried in the guts of the Mac TCP libraries linked into the
program?
						Reid
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