Odd MacTCP error.

[gclements@keps.com (Geoffrey Clements)]

Hi,

A few weeks ago I was at an interview and got into a discussion about
Macintosh vs. UNIX. The interviewer said that there was no way to log into
a mac from home and start a build. That way when you got to work the build
would be done. I made the usual references to Timbuktu and ARA but those
require another Mac. She has linux running on a PC. So I thought for a
couple of minutes and suggested using MCL to build a telnet server to send
commands to toolserver. She said I was the only person to give an answer
besides, "You can't do that."

I decided such a thing might be nice to have so I used the
appleevent-toolkit and hacked around with the eval-server example from the
digitool ftp site. (Thanks guys. This site is an excellent source for
examples. B-) ) And I have a little program that you can telnet to and
send commands to toolserver.

The problem I'm having is that if you telnet from the local machine you
get an invalid RDS error when the connection is first made. If you hit
cmd-. and ignore the error and start entering commands from telnet
sometimes it works sometimes telnet just bus errors and you end up in
MacsBug. If you keep hitting 'g' and enter in MacsBug you eventually get
to a point where you can enter commands in telnet again.

I'm using NCSA Telnet 2.6, MCL 2.0.1 (3.0 hasn't arrived yet.) and MacTCP 2.0.6.

Anybody have any idea what's going on?

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geoff                                           Geoffrey P. Clements
Senior Software Engineer                            Mac Software Guy
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