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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X for Mac w/SLIP?
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Date: 14 Sep 90 14:19:17 GMT
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In article <900913143141.00000BC6091@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV>,
PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes:
> Colleague has just gotten a Mac and does some work from home dialling
> up the Sun-3 via a 9600 baud modem... sure would be nice to run X on
> the Mac.  If he got any (either?) of the Mac X products, would it be
> a cinch to get it working if he had SLIP?  Anyone got relevant
> experience of the Mac X products?  Can you get them bundled with SLIP;
> if not, where can you get SLIP for the Mac?
> 
> Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)

This is an ongoing question.  Here is the answer as best I know and can 
currently say.

There currently is no SLIP for MacTCP (which both X products use).  Keep
your eyes open though, sometime around the end of October you should find
what you seek.

Just as an aside, TCP/Coect II contains SLIP as well as SMTP/POP, NNTP, etc.
You could dialup with it and do a lot of what you want (no X though).

Hope that helps.
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