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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Connecting to Internet
Date: 11 Feb 2000 18:26:16 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <mzXo4.83$ysd1.2424964@tomcat.sk.sympatico.ca>,
<d.cox@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:
: On 2000-02-11 fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(FrankdaCruz) said:
:
: >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.
:
: Let me explain further what I am trying to do. I have a PPP connection to
: the Internet, which I dial into with my modem. I have the ZIICS program
: that works on a shell connection to a telnet server, to provide a graphical
: user interface for Internet chess. I would like to be able to get ZIICS to
: work on my PPP connection. As it is now ZIICS will dial up, log in and then
: can't work with the PPP protocol. I thought that Kermit was similar in this
: regard, so if I could figure out how Kermit managed to handle it , then
: maybe I could get ZIICS to work too. It seems that Kermit requires a PPP
: packet driver. I have download one. I can get it to dial into my Internet
: number and log in. It looks like the driver is communicating with my
: connection, but then I am returned to the Dos prompt. I can't get either
: Kermit or ZIICS to use this driver.
:
Which driver? Anyway, if this is some kind of dedicated ZIICS port on the
Internet, Kermit won't do you any good at this point -- Kermit is a Telnet
client, not a chess player.
It seems your questions are actually about ZIICS (which we've never heard of)
and PPP. It's not clear from your description where ZIICS is supposed to
run -- on your PC, on a shell account that you access from your PC (but then
how can it be graphical?), etc. Anyway, this is not job for Kermit, unless
you want to use Kermit as your dialer (you can exit from MS-DOS Kermit and
leave the connection open for other applications to use, e.g. ZIICS or a
PPP driver). Kermit can be a terminal emulator on a serial connection,
and it can be a Telnet client.
- Frank