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Re: SLIP with WAFFLE for DOS

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From: David Douthitt
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:11
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ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:

| 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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Subject: Re: SLIP with WAFFLE for DOS
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