Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!ukma!wuarchive!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Several Questions...... Message-ID: <1991Feb26.224719.8799@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 26 Feb 91 22:47:19 GMT References: <910226.03250240.060828@SFA.CP6> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 28 SMILLS@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (SCOTT MILLS) writes: >1) We have our Localtalk network connected to out ethernet backbone > via SHIVA fastpaths. Is there a version of Telnet or a similar > //GS software that will allow me to take advantage of this? Not yet, but I (among others) are looking into it. I have other projects I have to do first but I may be releasing a hacked TFTP for the GS within a reasonable amount of time. >2) Is there such a beast as an ethernet card for a //GS. Not that I know of. It is theoretically possible to use a SCSI-based ethernet interface with a GS SCSI card, but driver software would have to be written. I don't have the money to buy such an interface right now, if I did I would be looking into it more seriously. If one of the SCSI-ethernet vendors gives out the programmers' notes to their product then it should be possible. Modifying the Appletalk protocols to use it would not be too hard because of the fairly intelligent and reasonably documented way the IIgs AppleTalk protocols are called. >3) I have recently been playing around with TOPS for both the > MAC and MeSsyDOS. Does a version exist for the GS? Nope. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com