Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: HOWLEY@vm.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jose Dias) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: TCP/IP and [Atari ST] Minix ??? Message-ID: <16174@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 7 Apr 90 14:08:58 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 22 From: Scott Yelich >>>Is there a package out there somewhere that implements tcp/ip, >>>preferably through the serial port, and works under minix? If not, >>>hasn't anyone ever thought of this? >>TCP/IP if I recall correctly is for ethernet boards. Serial boards use >>something known as SLIP (or Serial Line Internet Protocol). TCP/IP is for >>ethernet and I don't expect to see that until LONG after the ST has an >>ethernet board available for it (if that ever happens). >>You can try porting over some of the PD implementations of SLIP over >>to the ST which may work, but I doubt if it can be done on the PC version >>because of the memory restrictions for programs (64K code/data). > >I have SLIP for TOS... I was SLIP (or whatver) for Minix. Could you post this? Perhaps we could make it into SLIP for Dos or SLIP of PC-Minix... Jose Dias (HOWLEY@VM.UTCS.UTORONTO.CA)