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From: rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Dave Rivers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: SLIP and MINIX? (Was Re: Bruce Evan's Opus)
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Date: 14 Jun 89 19:27:12 GMT
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In article <336@blenheim.nsc.com> des@berlioz (Desmond Young) writes:
> In article <16698@louie.udel.EDU>, Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (marty) writes:
> >   1) support TCP/IP (I'm not going to ask for XNS) -- i.e. ftp/telnet would
> > give it real world usefulness.  I'd be happy to discuss how to do this with
> > anyone else interested.
> 
> Well....,
>   I have Phil Karn's TCP-IP (NET) package running under MINIX. But, I have
> not posted it for the following reasons:
		....  Good reasons deleted ...
>   Anyway, many thanks to Phil Karn, KA9q, and other contributors, the package
> is really great. Almost all the problems I had were MINIX, not NET. Also
> thanks to Ed Hall, he sent me the V1.0 source he had got working with SLIP
                                                                        ^^^^
> under MINIX.


	SLIP - really???!!!

	It all sounds *too* good to be true....

	A SLIP implementation would be real nice for those of us
	without an ether-net card - or to run at home for nightime mail.

	Any chance of that making it to the net???

		- Dave Rivers -
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