I'm a little unclear about what your situation is. SLIP
(in a nutshell) allows your computer to behave as if it's
connected to the Internet. You receive an IP address when
you issue the SLIP command to your terminal server. From
that point on, whatever program that you wish to run will
run on YOUR machine. Not the terminal server. If you wish
to run telnet, you need a telnet client on your machine at
home. If you want to run gopher, you need a gopher client
on your machine, etc, etc.
Could you clarify exactly what happens when you try to start
one of your clients? That way we may be able to help you
better.
Soory, I am an engineer, english is suppose to be bad? (grin). The main probkem is when I run the client gopher program from MY computer it doesn't work, because I am not loggin to my account yet. In order to login I have to telnet. But all the client telnet programs I have seen only have the telnet client program. It doesn't allow client gopher programs to be run from within it.
The way my school computers work:
In order to all the whole university to use the SLIP protocol, they allow it at the MAIN phone server. This is before you connect to the other computer systems. an i.e. Call tymnet, in order to use Prodigy from tymnet, you have to connect to prodigy. (telnet prodigy) Now imagine tymnet allows SLIP connects, you call tymnet type in SLIP, it gives you your dynamic IP number, everything is fine. Except tymnet doesn't have gopher, archie, it only allows you to connect to other systems. Once on the OTHER system, then gopher works. But any of the client programs (archie, gohper) I have seen assumes 'tymnet' has gopher.
I hope this clarified it for you.
thanks for the reply
mike
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