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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: SLIP and MINIX? (Was Re: Bruce Evan's Opus)
Summary: Yes, I've got SLIP under MINIX but it's too big to post to such a small audience
Keywords: SLIP, MINIX, KA9Q
Message-ID: <2107@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 89 01:26:25 GMT
References: <16698@louie.udel.EDU> <336@blenheim.nsc.com> <7139@xyzzy.UUCP>
Reply-To: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Organization: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA  90406
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In article <7139@xyzzy.UUCP> rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Dave Rivers) writes:
>In article <336@blenheim.nsc.com> des@berlioz (Desmond Young) writes:
>>   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.
>
>       . . . .
>
>	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 -

Well, unless there is more of a demand than when I last mentioned it,
I don't think that such a large (~350KB) posting is worth the cost
to the net.

However, I am willing to send anyone the NET program (sources and
binaries) along with my modifications to 1.3 MINIX to add an FIONREAD
ioctl() (any other means of implementing non-blocking I/O should work as
well).  Just send me a pre-packaged, postage-paid 1.2MB floppy, and I'll
send you just what I sent Desmond Young.  Note that this version does
NOT support anything other than SLIP, and that its support of FTP,
TELNET and SMTP is pretty basic.  That said, its TCP/IP implementation
seems quite robust; I've used it for several megabytes worth of FTP
transfers and numerous TELNET sessions without a hitch.

If you are interested, E-Mail me and I'll send you my address.

		-Ed Hall
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