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In article <815585138.14108@bluevan.demon.co.uk>
           accessctr-cffe@bbcnc.org.uk  writes:

> malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir) wrote:
> 
> >accessctr-cffe@bbcnc.org.uk wrote:
> >> Is it possible to get vt-100 terminal style command line access to a
> >> Demon account?
> 
> >No, you do not have shell access (nor for that matter a Unix account
> >to shell access).
> 
> >You can however telnet with vt-100 to other hosts that permit it.
[SNIP]
> Thanks for the advice, but this is a DOS app, how can it access my
> SLIP connection?

If the game is a DOS app that uses a SLIP packet-driver, you will
have to get a packet-driver set up.  This is a program that dials Demon,
sets up a SLIP connection, and then calls your game, which hooks into
the SLIP stuff already set up.

My own favorite is slip_it, available by FTP from any Simtel mirror
as msdos/offline/slip_itj.zip

Since Demon's ftp site is down, I suggest you try
sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/simtel/msdos/offline/slip_itj.zip

You'll have to write a login script and set up a few configuration
files, but if you are reasonably proficient in DOS batch files or
scripting comms programs, you shouldn't find it too hard.

-- 
/ Philip McNab // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /