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From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: special background filetransfer
Message-ID: <24061@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 89 07:29:28 GMT
References: <289@ultb.UUCP>
Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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In article <289@ultb.UUCP> jdb9608@ultb.UUCP (J.D. Beutel (713ICS)) writes:
+---------------
| Is there a program that will let me download a file (from Un*x)
| while I continue to work in a shell over the same telephone line?
+---------------

Yes -- though whether it would be useful to you is questionable.
There is a complete implementation of the TCP/IP protocols by
Phil Karn (ham callsign KA9Q) which runs on a PC, and provides
multiple Telnet and FTP connections over a single SLIP connection
(Serial Line IP). It requires that the (Unix or whatever) host on
the other end support SLIP (which comes with Berkeley 4.3bsd Unix).

I have used it for exactly what you describe: Transferring files
with FTP while doing shell-level work with Telnet.

Of course, I had Telebit Trailblazers on both ends. It's a bit sluggish
(but still works) at 1200 baud... ;-}


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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