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From: hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Kurt Hirchert)
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Subject: Re: FTP via Modem - Program?
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Date: 9 May 91 16:50:27 GMT
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In article <1991May4.114958.5110@mcs.drexel.edu> jmitchel@king.drexel.edu (Jim Mitchell) writes:
>In earlier articles there have been questions about what program to
>use for FTP, with the standard answer being NCSA Telnet.  For
>convenience I often work at home, loging on to a Unix machine (via
>modem) which has FTP capability.  I can get FTP files to the Unix
>machine, but then have difficulty getting them to my home machine.
>Eventually I should be able to do so when I can figure out the
>intracies of Kermit parameters, but hope there might be an easier way.
>Is anyone aware of a Mac telecommunications program that would allow
>me to FTP to my home machine (via modem of course), through the Unix
>machine transparently. At the moment I'm using White Knight 11.12
>quite happily except for this lack.

In the long run, Apple may provide a version of MacTCP that can work over SLIP
(serial line IP) or one of its successor protocols, so the standard answer
could still be NCSA Telnet.  Until then, there are a few communications
programs that have SLIP built into them.  In particular, I know of
TCP/Connect II, a commercial product from Intercon, and a modified version of
NCSA Telnet available via anonymous FTP from ftp.cisco.com.  (The latter has
no documentation, so you have to learn by word of mouth that you specify
hardware=slipXXXX, where XXXX is the line speed (e.g., 9600),  in order to
invoke the SLIP modifications.)
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Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications