Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu!lum From: lum@armadillo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: What is dial-up-able Message-ID: <57095@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 21:47:38 GMT References: <1531@ns.network.com> Reply-To: Lum Johnson Organization: The Ohio State University, IRCC/CIS Joint Computing Laboratory Lines: 45 In article <1531@ns.network.com> logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) writes: > I know that uucp transported news can be handled over dial-up modems, .. > but I don't know how those high speed direct connect internet links work. The protocols used on the Internet belong to a family known as TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). These include FTP (File Transfer Protocol), SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), TELNET (remote terminal emulation), etc. They can run over any physical transport (which is fast enough), but in practice they are usually run over Ethernet or something similar. They are documented by the RFCs, ie, the `rfc:rfc####.txt' files (`####' are one to four numerals) at `nic.ddn.mil' (nee `sri-nic.arpa'), available by anonymous FTP. They are also `~ftp/pub/archives/rfc/*' at `cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu', available by anonymous FTP and anonymous UUCP. You should start with `rfc-index.txt' (a cumulative list of all RFCs which includes notes as to what has been obsoleted and by what, and so on) and `rfc1000.txt', (the _Request For Comments Reference Guide_ by Reynolds & Postel). If you cannot find them closer at hand, you may also want to get `rfc:hedrick-intro.txt' and `rfc:hedrick-mgmt.txt' (approximately 90000 and 145000 characters respectively) from `osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu' by anonymous FTP. (Note that this is a TOPS-20 rather than a UNIX host.) Then you may want to ask some more specific questions on either of `comp.protocols.tcp-ip' or `comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains', depending on whether the protocols or the domain system is puzzling you more. > I've just heard from a guy looking to hook his VMS system into the net. > He mentioned a software package from Carnegie/Mellen that interfaced > VMS to TCP/IP? He wanted to know what else he needed to get news to > his VMS machine, like a modem? a direct connect line? I didn't know > what to tell him. He should get in touch with the people on the `news.software.anu-news' newsgroup, or their mailing-list if they have one. They apparently have a newsreader that works for VMS, and a bunch of supporting software for it. Lum -=- -- Lum Johnson lum@cis.ohio-state.edu lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu "You got it kid -- the large print giveth and the small print taketh away." -------