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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Connecting to Internet
Date: 11 Feb 2000 14:36:30 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <uPLo4.59$ysd1.1507468@tomcat.sk.sympatico.ca>,
David Cox <d.cox@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:
: ... I would like to connect with the program ZIICS. It is an Internet
: chess server program that doesn't work with a PPP connection. I was
: trying to find out how Kermit connects so that I might find a way to
: connect with ZIICS. It seems that ZIICS requires a 'shell connection'.
: From what I can figure out, this is something to do with a Unix type
: computer that connects to the Internet and allows ZIICS to work.
:
This probably means that you simply use Kermit to dial the Unix computer.
In that case you don't need anything extra; you just use Kermit as it is;
the Internet part is taken care of by the computer that you dialed, not by
Kermit.
- Frank