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Re: SLIP Logon Script - HOW?

#1418
From: Stephen Dunne
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:04
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In article <93023.104234U37127@uicvm.uic.edu> U37127@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>I got fed up with trying to use the IBM TCP/IP Slip support and its lack
>of scripts.  I now use David Bolen's SLIP driver exclusively.  This is
>a great program and rock solid, in spite of being an alpha level product.
>It has complete scripting capabilities via a rexx interface!  What could make
>slip life more simpler?   It also supports vjc compression, either automatic
>or forced on.
>
>
>Satish Movva
>Small Systems Group                            Bitnet: U37127@UICVM
>Academic Computer Center                     Internet: u37127@uicvm.uic.edu
>University of Illinois at Chicago                      satish@satish.cc.uic.edu

Hmmm.. You do know that the c source to slipcall is available on Compuserve &
I also upped it to Hobbes. It's no replacement for proper scripting (via rexx
or any other means) but it does make the IBM SLIP stuff usable(ish).

Apologies if yer Granny is picking egg-shell fragments from her teeth as we
speak. :-)

Stephen
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