Modem Software

[Minghsun Liu]

In article <77390 at sgi.sgi.com> vjs at rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>
>Instead of searching for a "modem program", one might try cu on an IRIS or
>tip on some other machines.
>
>The advantage of cu/tip is that it is almost always present on the machine
>you happen to be using, it uses the dialing facilities you have probably
>already set up for UUCP, SLIP, etc., and it uses the machine's
>xterm/wsh/whatever directly.
>
>Kermit, *modem, et al do far better file transfering than cu or tip, but
>that is not saying much.  File transfers using NFS, rcp, or ftp are
>incomparable better than anything stuffed into a modem program.  Of
>course, you can't use the good stuff unless you are running IP over the
>link.  If you run SLIP over the link, then you get multiple windows and the
>rest of the good stuff.
>
>
>Vernon Schryver,    vjs at sgi.com

Could you elaborate on the SLIP that you mentioned above?

			Thanx,


			Minghsun Liu 
			<mingliu at athena.mit.edu>