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Article #52Re: limitations and SERIAL gopher
From: Geoff Rehn
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 21:37
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 21:37
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At 12:57 PM 17/6/94, Albert Lunde wrote: >Use of gopher requires SLIP or a net connection. It will not work >reliably over direct serial (as I recall) because the protocol >is designed for a TCP connection and it is hard to make >things like echo cancelation work well enough. I think the definitive statement is that NUPop will NOT work by plain asynchronous 9direct) dialup. Pib _stated_ this as a fact some months ago, after earlier discussion and much testing. Is the gopher option now greyed out, in serial mode? NUPop is an amazing tool for the plain serial dialup user, with wide verstality. And it still is the only dialup tool that will read/post news to an NNTP news host that I know of. One can't have it all over a non-TCP connection, but NUPop goes a great way towards that goal. Any limitations are in the connection mode, not NUPop. Thanks again, Pib! ---- Geoff Rehn Academic Service Unit Murdoch University rehnpc@cleo.murdoch.edu.au (PC mail) rehn@cleo.murdoch.edu.au (Mac mail) uucp: rehn@smokey.eepo.oz.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 13efd4,fe7362e6733ad3f1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid13efd4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-06-17 15:01:43 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!gateway From: rehnpc@cleo.murdoch.edu.au (Geoff Rehn) Newsgroups: info.nupop Subject: Re: limitations and SERIAL gopher Date: 17 Jun 94 21:37:07 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 28 Approved: Usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Message-ID: <9406172137.AA01949@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Originator: daemon@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu