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From: sdh@flash.bellcore.com (Stephen D Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: EtherTalk Question
Message-ID: <19790@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 21:56:59 GMT
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Reply-To: sdh@flash.UUCP (Stephen D Hawley)
Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ
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I have a front end interface to a mainframe that currently communicates
via the serial port.  My superiors have asked if I could possibly speed up
the communications by using ethernet.  Fine.  I have an Apple EtherTalk
installed (Using V 1.0 since 2.0 doesn't work with our internet), and can
access all the nice dandy laser printers on our network.

This is not what I want.  Since I'm on an ethernet with billions and
billions of other machines (most of which are suns, decstations, and the like),
I should be able to start a shell on one of the machines right?

So.  How do I do this?  NCSA telnet does not work, so this is clearly of no
help in terms of looking for source.

In sum, I'm looking for a way to open a channel (socket, whatever) to some
arbitrary host on our network and (among other things) run a terminal
emulator on top of this.

As a minor flame, I am rather disturbed by the almost complete lack of any
kind of technical information in the manual for the card.  Call me
old-fashioned, but when one purchases a peripheral, I believe one should
get a little more in-depth information than how to select an icon in the
control panel!  This is like buying a radial arm saw that has the ability
to cut at any angle or tilt with a variety of blades, but not being given
the instructions beyond how to put on a pair of safety glasses, turn the
beast on and off and make cuts at the factory settings.  In the case of
the EtherTalk card, it's worse because the settings aren't even VISIBLE.

Hmf.

Steve Hawley
sdh@flash.bellcore.com
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