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From: gsnow@pro-freedom.cts.com (Gary Snow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: SLIP?
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.185752.12093@clark.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 90 18:57:49 GMT
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Organization: Apple*Van - Apple Users Group of Vancouver, WA [206/253-9389]
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In-Reply-To: message from kdb@macaw.intercon.com

>SLIP is the "protocol" that allows the usage of TCP/IP over a serial line.
>If both ends of the connection support SLIP you can create a TCP/IP connection
>between the two machines.  This, of course, allows you to do FTP, SMTP, POP,
>Telnet, etc... over the standard phone line.

Real nice, so where can it be obtained, and how much does it cost?  I would
like to be able to receive and read news from my Mac, would this allow me to
do that from a remote Unix site that I only have a modem link to?

Gary
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