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From: cozza@cshl.org (Steven Cozza at Grace Computer Center)
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Subject: Re: Repost: SLIP on MacTCP ( TCP/Connect II )
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.223033.11785@cshl.org>
Date: 10 Feb 91 22:30:33 GMT
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In article <10739@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> epan@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eric C. Pan) writes:
>
>	I am sorry, I looked into TCP/Connect II one week ago, and it had SLIP.
>Perhaps you are thinking of the basic package, not the complete package, or
> the SLIP package.

Yes. TCP/Connect has a SLIP implementation, but it works only with those 
protocols built into TCP/Connect like telnet, ftp, and netnews. Other programs
are unable to use the SLIP connection, because it's not designed for that.
I would hope that one day (soon) InterCon would come out with a true
SLIP driver like Ethertalk, that other programs could use.  I realize that
this is difficult to do, but I think that it is something needed by more
people than just myself. Also I'm not particular about SLIP, if PPP or some
other mechanism were available I would gladly use it.

Steven Cozza
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