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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: I can get news from around the world, but not to the next room
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Date: 3 Dec 90 18:31:40 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.125059.2013@bwdls61.bnr.ca>, bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben
Schmidt) writes:
> How about just hanging your wife's mac off the A/UX serial port and 
> letting her run any async terminal emulator to login to A/UX as a terminal 
> and fire up whatever newsreader you use?  Are both your A/UX Mac's serial 
> ports in use now (e.g. for your newsfeed and printer)?  Can you do without one of them (courtesy of an A-B box while she's reading news?). regards,

You could also connect into the A/UX box using SLIP over your serial line.
Course you would have to find a SLIP implementation of NCSA or purchase 
TCP/Connect II, which would also give you a niffty UI for reading news, mail,
etc...  Just an idea.

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