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From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili)
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Subject: Re: line sharing (was: PacerTerm announcement)
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Date: 12 Jun 91 15:03:32 GMT
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<12028@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500wong@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Ki Ching Wong) writes:

>I believe I started all this.  But still back to the basic, I wasn't
>excited about PacerTerm's multiple session capability because I want
>to call up several BBS with one modem line.  I was wondering if it
>can have multiple UNIX sessions over one modem connection, like
>MacLayers.  I found MacLayer quite fascinating but lack of support
>for zmodem (and I can't seems to get xmodem to work in Layer either)
>is too bad.  I was hoping that PacerTerm will do just what MacLayer
>can plus the zmodem support.  Apparently, that's not the case.

>-Ki Wong
>6500wong@ucsbuxa.

Hmmmmm.  Yet another situation where Liaison provides a very nice answer.  I
just posted an explanation of this whole thing a couple of days ago, but I did
not address this thread specifically enough.

Dialing in to a Liaison router I can establish _many_ terminal sessions at once
to all sorts of places using NCSA Telnet 2.4b11 (MacTCP) for example.  And I
can simultaneously be using several other TCP/IP-based program, _and_ several
AppleTalk based services (printing, filesharing, etc.)....  I of course do all
of my file transfers using ftp across this connection.  (Well, actually I often
use WMAC and RMAC when logged into CMS on our IBM mainframe....)

Liaison provides all of the capabilities that people in this thread wanted, and
provides them well.  Additionally, it provides _much more_ than what people in
this thread were even thinking about....  Check it out....

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