Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
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From: bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt)
Subject: ncsa telnet hacked by cisco to support SLIP - need term program
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.221023.21811@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 22:10:23 GMT

cisco has an ncsa telnet hacked to support SLIP, just add hardware=slipN, 
where N is the bps connection rate, eg. hardware=slip9600.

trouble is you need a terminal emulator to make the connection to the 
terminal server.  tried kermit and freeterm but after i dial into the 
terminal server, and try to switch to cisco telnet, they either fight with 
cisco for control of the serial port, or don't give it up at all.  If I 
switch back to the terminal emulator and select quit, it closes the serial 
connection before quitting.

so what i need is something quick and dirty to open a serial connection, 
which doesn't close that connection when I quit from it and launch cisco 
telnet.  I'd sure prefer if it ran at 19200, 8 bits, no parity.  :^ )   
any advice?


Ben Schmidt              Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.    Ph: (613) 763-3906
Information Technology     P.O. Box 3511, Station C      FAX:(613) 763-3283
bschmidt@bnr.ca         Ottawa Ontario Canada K1Y 4H7