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From: david@linc.cis.upenn.edu (David Feldman)
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Subject: Re: Anyone have 4.0 for the Annex
Summary: Yeah
Keywords: Neat, groovy
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Date: 30 Aug 88 19:02:23 GMT
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> Subject: Anyone have 4.0 for the Annex
> From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
> The title says it all. I was under the impression it would
> be shipping early in August.

Yeah, we have it, and I think it is a real improvement over version 3.X.
So far, we have had no particular trouble with it.  A while back I posted
a request for ideas about how to spool through an Annex box from UNIX.
Well, with 4.0 comes an rtelnet program.  It works well, and I only needed
to make some small cosmetic changes to it.  It hooks an annex port up to
a pty, making a transparent connection over the net.  We have hooked both
line printers and laserwriters to it with no trouble.  The connection is
reliable and bidirectional.

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