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From: wcr@branch.FIDONET.ORG (W.c. Rothanburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: multiplexing pc to unix communcations
Message-ID: <10578.26B6621E@branch.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 31 Jul 90 22:56:54 GMT
Organization: The Branch Office, Pompano Beach, Florida.  (305) 979-2073
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> The Amiga has DNet.  The Mac has MacLayers.  Is there
> something for
> the pc that multiplexes a serial line connection to a unix
> host?  For
> example, hae a compiler window open and a newsreader window
> open, or
> transfer a file concurrently with an open shell window, etc.
> --
> Jim Wright
> jwright@quonset.cfht.hawaii.edu
> Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.
 
You can get some TCP/IP packages that also allow you to use SLIP (Serial-
Line IP.) One I found and like is from the University of Maryland called
MD-DOS/IP.  It's distributed  by Wisc-ware to educational institutions only.
 
Bill 

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