Re: Spectrum/Email/FTP?

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

In article <1993Nov3.032536.16236@slab.slip.uiuc.edu>, derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert) writes:
|> In article <behrenss.752276647@hphalle4> behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE  
|> (Soenke Behrens) writes:
|> > Of course, on the GS, the possibilities will be severely limited. And
|> > even though I have a Sun sitting here, I use a uucp-poll/interactive
|> > IP thing instead of a true SLIP/PPP connection.
|> I beg your pardon?  The possibilities will be just as numerous as your Sun
|> (minus X-windows, for now =]).  In fact, with my TCP/IP implementation and BSD
|> socket support for GNO, most of the standard net applications will compile
|> directly without much porting!

Ah, ummm ... ok. I should've clarified. Apologies. What I meant was really
that X wouldn't work. Personally, I see no gain whatsoever in using my
ftp client over using another machine's ftp client _unless_ I get some nice
bells and whistles, namely, X.
I am not using SLIP right now because the interactive account is cheaper,
and I am happy with the functionality of "standard" ftp and telnet.

So, what I meant to say was, probably: SLIP on a non-X machine does not
gain you much over uucp and interactive IP.

Oh, hmm ... thinking about it ... depending on the setup, it might. I am
lucky enough to be able to use bi-directional fast uucp, but many might
be stuck with the old -G variant ... in that case, SLIP is of course
a definite gain for polling news and the like.

Regards
Soenke

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