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From: NEIL@KSUVM.BITNET (Neil Erdwien)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: SLIP suggestion
Message-ID: <8804072200.AA00203@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 5 Apr 88 22:02:00 GMT
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Has anyone considered making SLIP work on an IBM system?  In particular,
most IBM systems will only handle 7-bit ASCII.  When I last looked at
SLIP it assumed an 8-bit channel.  IBM reads must be terminated by a
carriage return also.  There might also be full/half duplex
compatibility problems.

Neil Erdwien
Kansas State University