Re: Linux as server for IIGS?

[pubpc1@library.ucla.edu]

themaples@worldnet.att.net (Bruce Maples) wrote:
>
>: >I'd like to set up a Linux box and use it as a server for both my PC
>: >and my GS.  Obviously, I'd run TCP/IP to hook the PC to it.  I started
>: >out thinking that it might be possible to dial into it from the GS and
>: >use VT100 emulation in a comm program.  But, even if I did that, what
>: >good would it do me?  I am mainly wanting to move files around, and
>: >there is no FTP for the GS that I'm aware of.

What you can do is to use UUCP instead of TCP/IP.  Proline and
METAL both support the UUCP protocol (unix to unix copy program)
to move files, news, and email back and forth between a UNIX box
and an Apple IIe, c, or GS.  They are designed to run through
a modem link, but serial would work as well.

UUCP is not instantaneous, but you can set the GS to "dial" into
the PC every hour, for example, to synchronize files.

I tried suggesting a UUCP based network for Jack Freiss' Apple II
email project, but because it required the II computers to be
equipped with $80 hard drives, it was rejected.

-Scott G.