From: Andrew J. Cosgriff ! (andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au)
Date: 01/05/93


From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: X & telnet via modem - no SLIP.
Date: 5 Jan 1993 08:22:06 GMT

aneubach@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Andreas Neubacher) writes:

>For those of you who can't wait for the Linux SLIP port, here's an
>alternative which I've been using successfully for 2 weeks now:
> Get the 'ka9qbin.taz' package from your favorite linux server,
>modify the 'startup.net' file such that it fits your setup, connect via
>modem (e.g. using kermit) to some terminal server or Unix host supporting slip,
>and then start the 'net' program from the 'ka9q' package.
> This gives you a SLIP connection over which you can do ftp & telnet
>(from inside 'net' - you don't need the ftp & telnet binaries!). Even X
>works! (I'm typing this messge from my machine at home in a window of an
>'emacs' running on our Institute's host.)

Akternatively, the new version of Term (0.99) appeared on sunsite
This is very nice !
You log into uni via xc or whatever you normally use, then run term at each end
(you have to compile it at each end...) - at your end, you run it like you'd run
rz, etc...

Then you can switch to another VC and do a trsh and log in multiple times !
You can log in the other way too !
You can even redirect ports on either end to ports on the other machines !

Lotsa fun, but not with a slow modem :(
(it'll do data compression if your modem doesn't already)

Enjoy !

Cos !

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