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From: bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: re: slip
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.213015.15835@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Date: 6 Oct 90 21:30:15 GMT
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In article <2939988@AppleLink.Apple.COM> D1749@applelink.apple.com (Disini 
SW, Emmanuel Disini,PRT) writes:
> >I need to connect a MAC to a UNIX box over a noisy line. Does
> >anyone know of either a SLIP implementation for the MAC or some other
> >error tolerant protocol interface to the serial ports?
>  
> There are several uucp implementations available on the Mac. I wouldn't 
know
> how robust uucp "g" is under noisy line conditions, but maybe you should 
just
> get some MNP or Telebit modems?
>  
> One such shareware uucp implementation was written by Jim O Dell, and 
you can
> contact him at jim@fpr.com.
>  
> hope this helps,
> joel disini
> d1749@applelink.apple.com

InterCon's TCP/Connect II supports telnet, FTP client and server, NNTP 
reader, and, I think(?), SMTP sender over SLIP.  cisco systems modified 
NCSA Telnet 2.3 for slip as an unsupported contribution to NCSA.   Apple 
say's next MacTCP version will make it easier to support SLIP, which isn't 
the same as saying it will allow applications built to sit on top of it to 
automatically become SLIP supporting.   :^)

And finally for you HAM radio types, there's a version of KA9Q for the Mac out there (somewhere)  :^) which supports SLIP as well.


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