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Re: Spectrum/Email/FTP?

Subject: Re: Spectrum/Email/FTP?
From: jaj4922@FERT2.FE.PSU.EDU (Jason A. Jeffries)
Date: 27 Oct 93 16:31:36 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: The Internet
References: <9310262350.AA25969@apple.com>
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> 
>         But of course, this means that you will have to HAVE AN INTERNET 
> CONNECTION AVAILABLE..  That is, you will have to have a 
> Localtalk->Gatorbox-type-thing->Ethernet->Real Internet  connection.
> 
> 	But he's also doing SLIP, so if you can get a SLIP account that'll
> be usable too... If you don't know what SLIP is, don't ask me.. I can't
> explain it well enough, but it's basically TCP/IP over a modem, but you
> need a special acct.

I know what SLIP is, but really I don't see much advantage over just calling
up a dialup in terminal mode... Maybe someone out there that knows more
about SLIP will tell me why it's better than a dialup??? Please?

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  - From: irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)

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