Re: Linux as server for IIGS?

[sbehrens@bigfoot.com (Sönke Behrens)]

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 right now is use the GS as a terminal, correct. You
can off course move files via ZModem (sz/rz), which is slow (over the
57k6 or so you can probably run), but works.

In the hopefully-not-to-distant future (or rather: when it's ready :),
you can use GNO/ME 2.0.6 which will have TCP/IP and therefore, ftp.
Not much faster, still only PPP (there are no readily available
Ethernet devices for the GS), but it's a start.

Soenke
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