[Ham-Mac] Replacement for MacTNC v.1.1 ?

[Chuck Counselman]

At 10:40 AM -0400 7/16/04, Steve Hellyer wrote:
>I usually use zterm, or the TNC terminal built into MacLoggerDX to 
>work packet.  But was curious to give MacTNC 1.1 a try.  Seems to 
>work find under MacOS X10.3 for me....  I'm no expert on MacTNC but 
>it seem to work here.  I am running current 10.3.4 to be precise.
>
>Is it not working for you?


As I mentioned previously, MacTNC v.1.1 works fine for me under Mac 
OS 10.2.8.  I never tried to use it under 10.3.x because -- I 
believe, although I may have misunderstood -- Steve Muncy, its 
author, told me that it wouldn't work.

Searching my email archive for my correspondence with him, just now I 
found that on November 12, 2003, he told me that he had a later 
version, 1.2, that  ran under Panther.  He did not say what version 
of Panther, but perhaps you can guess from the date.  He also sent me 
MacTNC 1.2, and I was embarrassed to discover just now that v.1.2 is 
what I have actually been running since that date.

I was confused partly because, on Steve's web page for MacTNC 
<http://www.machamradio.com/software/ni5v/mactnc/index.html>, it is 
presently (July 16, 2004) stated that "The most recent version is 
Version 1.1."  Also, Steve wrote to me on November 12, 2003, that 
"Unfortunately, it looks like I'll be unable to continue updates to 
MacTNC. The third-party serial class used to link into the BSD 
lower-level serial routines is totally  broken in the latest compiler 
and won't work with Panther.  If the author  of that class updates it 
for the newer compilers, perhaps other changes and updates can be 
made to MacTNC -- but if that doesn't happen, MacTNC would need to be 
completely rewritten."


Thanks for helping to straighten me out.


73 de Chuck W1HIS