Re: flexfax: Hylafax future

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> >> Thought you might find this interesting.  They've ported X libraries over
> >> to NT, as well as a Kerberos 5 server and various X applications
> >> using this free package.  Maybe it will be of use to you or anyone else
> >> doing a port of HylaFax:
> >
> >Please note: the Kerberos implementation for Windows NT is not compatible
> >with the standard Kerberos release. Microsnot is once again taking someone
> >else's design, modifying it so it will not interoperate, and trying to
> >sell it as a major Microsnot product.
> 
> I'd just like to clarify something.
> 
> The Kerberos implementation _done by Microsoft_ is the broken version
> ("broken" being a relative term :-) ).  The one done by Cygnus _using
> the GNU-WIN32 package_ is a close-to-straight port of the MIT V5
> release (but there are still a few #ifdef's in the code).

Fair enough: I'm not familiar with the Cygnus NT product but am unsurprised
at vastly superior quality, since they've done quite good previous releases
of Kerberos.

> However, since HylaFAX uses many of the characteristics of Unix
> terminal devices, I doubt the server side would port to NT.  Client
> shouldn't be that hard, though.

Good question: since NT is actually VMS at its guts (check out the
lawsuits involving DEC and Microsoft and David Cutler, who wrote much
of NT after leaving DEC), it might *theoretically* not be that
difficult. But the secretive nature of Microsoft about its drivers,
protocols, etc. could make it completely infeasible.


			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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