Dialup TCP/IP for ms-dos?

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From: Dan Kegel
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1992 22:53

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I'm looking for a way to link the workstations of a bunch of developers
in different cities together.  They all run MS-DOS; some use Windows, some
use Desqview.  
Does anyone know of a TCP/IP package for the PC that knows about modems
such that it can accept incoming dialup PPP or SLIP links, and
(if the modem is not busy with an incoming call) start an outgoing
PPP or SLIP session too?

The eventual goal is to make the workstations feel like they're on
a small internet for the purposes of exchanging mail and mounting
seldom-referenced filesystems, without incurring the expense of
a continuous or even hourly connection to a network provider.

What's the closest anyone out there has come to this sort of
transparant data sharing on a shoestring budget?
- Dan Kegel (dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov)

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