Re: GNO Question

[dirk@gaga.maschinenbau.uni-dortmund.de (Dirk Froehling)]

In article <2sfjts$1pl@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, ray_lee@athena.mit.edu
(Yueh Z Lee) wrote:

> 	Is it possible to connect my beloved GS to a network of some type?
> (besides appletalk) I want to know if there is a network card that is
> made for the gs... or if you can use the SCSI port for that. I know MAC's
> have a networking type thing that uses the SCSI port. Is it possible to do
> a similar thing with the GS?

As far as I know, there is no network card available. There are a few
people
thinking about GS drivers for those SCSI port interfaces. It should be
possible
if you get the specs for one of the Mac interfaces. 

> 	And, if it is possible, what is the availability of the mail, readnews,
> telnet, and ftp softwares?

I think you will be able to do this with an upcoming version of GNO which
has
to support SLIP to make you connect to UNIX boxes for ftp etc. through a
modem.

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