From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) Subject: Re: Where's that *MULTIPLEXER*? Date: 28 Oct 1992 10:50:29 GMT
James Michael Chacon (probreak@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote:
: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
:
: >I'm fairly certain that it was on this newsgroup that someone
: >mentioned having made a multiplexing program that would allow multiple
: >shell processes through a single modem line. Could someone give me a
: >reference as to where I can get it (or anything like it)?
:
: >I've only got one phone line at present, and it's a bummer.
So have I, but I have no real complaints. :) Term makes it a fair bit
easier.
: Try tartarus.uwa.edu.au:/pub/oreillym/term???.tar.Z
This is right. Latest version is about 0.7.0 (or it will be shortly).
: Michael O'Reilly wrote it, and it works fairly well. I wouldn't suggest using
: it over 2400 baud except perhaps to experiment.
Hmm. I use it at 2400 baud. That is why it does it's own compression
and error correction. I find it very useable. However. If you want to
use it to run X-windows over a dial-up modem, then you defineately
want something faster than 2400 baud. There is someone (Sorry. I
forget your name) who was fairly enthused about improveing the
compression (which is pretty easy to do :) to the point where X could
be useable (via fancy dictionary clearing, and sending delta's). But I
don't hold out much hope of it getting very useable.
: James
Michael