Re: GS/TCP (TCP/IP for the IIGS)

[gachenb@eis.calstate.edu (Greg R. Achenbach)]

scotth@uiuc.edu (Scott Henson) writes:

> Something else of interest is that TCP/IP can be run over AppleTalk.
> This is done using a router that will route the TCP/IP packets between
> an AppleTalk network and a TCP/IP (i.e. ethernet) network.  One
> way to extend an AppleTalk network is to use AppleTalk Remote Access,
> a program that allows a remote Macintosh to dial in to a Mac connected to
> a network and to use all of the AppleTalk and TCP/IP services located on
> that network.
> 
> If someone would write an AppleTalk Remote Access client for the IIgs
> to go along with GS/TCP, then those who use ARA would have an easy way
> to connect to the network.  For that matter, the GS could then share files
> with all of the Macs on the remote network, and print to remote network
> printers, too!

Wow, that sounds great!  If someone came out with such a package, I would 
surely buy it.  It would meet a need that I currently have. --
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Greg Achenbach             gachenb@eis.calstate.edu (soon to be ctp.org)
Los Angeles County Outdoor Science School

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