ｩ 1995 Attachmate Corporation. All rights reserved.
Michael Rockhold, mikero@attachmate.com
15 December 1995
About CyberTerm
This editor is pretty much the most minimally-functional Telnet terminal you can imagine, but if you're looking for a simple NVT terminal emulator that you can embed in your favourite document, well, you've come to the right folder.
How to install this part
Install this part by dragging the editor icon into the Editors folder in your System folder, or to the Editors folder in the top level of any other disk on the desktop. Having done that, you can make stationery for this part by dropping the installed part on the OpenDoc icon in your extensions folder.
How to use this part
This part has two items in its "Terminal" menu. The first, Configure, opens a dialog box where you can type the IP address of a Telnet host computer and the port number to connect on. The other menu item, "Connect", will try to connect to the host you've specified and establish a Telnet session. The same menu item will disconnect you as well, if the host doesn't do it when you log out.
･To build this thing, I used the Prerelease MPW 3.4b7 (from ETO#18), and CodeWarrior 7, and the output of PartMaker(SamplePart), and all-in-all it was not an unpleasant experience. A simple-but-useful OpenDoc part editor is by no means harder to write than an ordinary application. A lot easier, in fact.
･This project started out life at Apple's CyberDog code kitchen in early December 1995, and it has a very trivial and at the moment non-functional level of CyberDog-savviness, or "savoir-chien," as I'd begun to say by the end of those intense three days.
･Virtually all the really interesting TCP-related stuff here is happening in Eric Scouten's TurboTCP library. What a great piece of work! If you need to do anything remotely similar to this, TurboTCP deserves a look. I've seen a fair handful of attempts to wrap our friend MacTCP in a cozy wrapper, and this I like this the best so far. I had to hack around a very small number of TCL-specific features, but I think I did little permanent damage.
･Contact Eric Scouten himself for more details at scouten@metrowerks.com, or see Metrowerks' Macintosh TCP/IP Programmer's Guide at http://atlantis.metrowerks.com/tcpip/index.html. Look for the non-hacked-up-by-me release of TurboTCP at ftp://daemon.ncsa.uiuc.edu//TCL/author/scouten/TurboTCP-201.hqx.
Demo Limitations/Bugs
･ Due to time constraints, this is a PowerMac-only part.
･ A single "Debugger()" call was accidentally left in the build part, but it is entirely possible that you will never see it.
･ Use of this part requires MacTCP to be installed. This part has not been tested in the slightest with Open Transport.
About Attachmate Corporation
Attachmate, one of the largest developers of personal computer software in the world, makes stuff that connects little computers to big ones. I work in one of the teams dedicated to making Macintosh software. We wrote Extra! for Macintosh, a AppleScript-savvy combined 3270 terminal emulator, FTP client, and mainframe file transfer tool. We also make MacIrma Mainframe, another combined 3270 terminal emulator and mainframe file transfer tool.
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The source files in this project, with the exception of everthing in the TurboTCP folder, are copyright ｩ 1995 Attachmate Corporation. This part editor is not warranted in any way, but you may use it freely in any way that may amuse you.
