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- From: hugh@ear.mit.edu (Hugh Secker-Walker)
- Subject: Virtual-pipe multiplexer (for communications package)
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:47:47 GMT
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- I am considering writing a serial-line communications package for
- NeXTstep. Having sketched the design, I find that the Unix-level
- control could be provided by a _very simple_ protocol which
- manages the set-up of multiple 'pipes' through the single serial
- link. The Dnet package used on the Amiga is the closest thing I
- know of, but it combines far too many peer-specific capabilities
- with the basic job of managing the pipes between peers. SLIP or
- PPP are too sophisticated and require kernel mucking. I just
- need a library or program that manages the exec-ing of pairs of
- Unix peers at the two ends of an existing serial-link and
- provides virtual pipes connecting their stdios. With such an
- underlying process it will be easy to provide any number shells
- on the remote machine, so file transfers and interactive stuff
- like reading news can happen together. Indeed, your favorite
- comm packages will all be useable, simultaneously!
-
- Please send me pointers to any libraries or programs resembling
- my description of the underlying virtual-pipe multiplexer.
- E-mail is fine, I'll summarize.
-
- Thanks for your time.
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