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- From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: SLIP with WAFFLE for DOS
- Message-ID: <HqDuXB6w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 12:11:52 CST
- References: <1993Jan16.080511.26696@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
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- | Waffle, by itself, does not do SLIP/PPP. You'll need something like
- | FTP Software or Wollongong's SLIP/PPP software. Maybe the KA9Q stuff
- | will work,...
-
- | I'd
- | look at bagging DOS and go for LINUX's TCP/IP things and run a Unix
- | site. Waffle's source will run you $120, but you can do cnews, smail,
- | uucp, etc., as well as NFS mounting drives, etc. and for considerably
- | less money than using someone else's SLIP/PPP stuff. Oh, and you'll
- | have X-windows to play with, and eight virtual consoles, and...
-
- Yes, but where's the CHALLENGE in that? Hmmm? :-)
-
- Now Burt Juda's setup at zeus.ieee.org - THAT'S a challenge :-)
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