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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: AS225r2: is it available from anywhere?
- References: <3111d0d2.16589861@News> <4f08t2$adi@redstone.interpath.net> <3115b817.2074818@News>
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- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 21:11:51 EDT
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- In article <3115b817.2074818@News> elric@tnp.com (Jeff Barr) writes:
- > On 3 Feb 1996 18:18:10 GMT, jamie@jamie.interpath.net (Jim Cooper)
- > wrote:
- > >I can help with questions about I-Net 225. (See my .sig... :-)
- >
- > Great. How easy is it to set up and configure compared, say, to the
- > mishmosh that AmiTCP is? How about documentation? Is it aimed at
-
- Its greatly improved over what AmiTCP 4.0 had to offer. I can't as
- I've installed any version more recent than that.
-
- The documentation isn't horrible. Some of the programs are very
- well documented. Others aren't.
-
- > humans, or someone with a 10 year background in Unix (assuming that
- > the standard user wouldn't have a clue what something like "Grep" is)?
-
- The word "grep" is never mentioned in the documentation. ;) I checked. ;)
-
- > Does the documentation just cover a basic setup such as connecting to
- > an ISP, or are more indepth networking/ethernet aspects covered?
-
- It talks about basic setups. If you need more in-depth knowledge, then
- any good book on TCP/IP and BSD-based networking fundamentals can help
- you.
-
- > Do you folks plan any tools which would aid connectivity with other
- > platforms? There's a HUGE need for this, as many Amiga users by choice
- > or necessity also have PC's, and there's really no currently available
- > good networking solution short of running Netware (IF the Amiga client
- > software is even still available) and with NT & Win95's built in
-
- Oxxi's ACS NetWare is still available.
-
- > networking support, some sort of Amiga-PC peer-peer capability should
- > both be fairly easy to incorporate and fairly profitable to whomever
- > markets it.
-
- It works with NT and Win95 (at least ftp and telnet do, I didn't do that
- piece of testing) running TCP/IP. It doesn't do the "native" networking.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
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