Re: Odd MacTCP error.

[slh@digitool.com (Steve Hain)]

At 1:38 PM 6/5/95, Geoffrey Clements wrote:
>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?
>
>-- 
>geoff                                           Geoffrey P. Clements
>Senior Software Engineer                            Mac Software Guy
>Kodak Electronic Printing Systems                         KEPS, Inc.
>gclements@keps.com                             Voice: (508) 670-6812

MCL 3.0 will ship with an enhanced version of MacTCP.lisp, which
defines error conditions for many common TCP situations. You could
then define handlers for them, or analyze them more easily.

- Steve Hain

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