#: 21364 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    08-Feb-96  01:52:10
Sb: #21360-ppp
Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

 > Has anyone ported a ppp (point to point protocol) interface to osk?

 > I have seen source code for a unix implementation of ppp and it doesn't
 > seem to be all that complicated...but the unix code I saw created device
 > drivers to do this. I'm not really knowledgeable about internet protocols,
 > or unix device drivers to even start a port of this.

It looks like a pretty big undertaking.  I believe I saw where someone said
they might put a bug in your ear 

I have a zip file containing all the standards for all the protocols. The zip
is about 833+ K  Would you like for me to email it to you?

 > It seems that my internet provider will no longer be supplying shell
 > accounts and ppp will be the only access. I don't really need all the gfx
 > stuff available under windows...so can this be done?

It certainly can be done, but whether anyone or group would have the time to do
so is the big question.  It is one thing I would have liked to have seen on our
systems, but after taking a look at it, it looks like a tremendous amount of
work ahead.

As a matter of fact, just last night I installed Winsock and Eudora on my
brother's PC just to see if I could and to become familiar with it. I set it up
for my own account, (None of us have figured out how to come up with a complete
logon script yet - if possible) and I don't think anyone could figure out the
contortions we have to go through to get on 

Anyway, I went in with Eudora and got my mail, I think I had about 4 msgs.  It
was fantastic.  In fact, I happened to have a MIME- encoded file attached and
it came through automatically.  Much simpler than using my system.  It's not
that bad with a shell account, but with the rates we are getting blistered
with, you can't afford to spend so much time online reading and replying to
mail.

I've just about decided it's easier to switch than fight where Internet access
is concerned.

                         -- David Breeding --
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