"JEFF LICQUIA (CEI)" <JLICQUIA@mhc.uiuc.edu> writes:

this from work, but it's running into bandwidth problems. There is no local SLIP provider that provides to home users. Thus, I am trapped in a VT100 environment, where a shell would be a great luxury. If and whe I get SLIP, I'll have to do it on a 386SX/20 with 4M of RAM, not exactl your speed demon kind of machine.

1. While I, too, have experienced the head rush that comes with fully graphical interfaces to high-bandwidth Net, I am also painfully aware o the reality that too many people are stuck with less. Given a few week,

If you have access to a SLIP line, but frustrated with perhaps less of a machine than you would like, give MINUET a try. It is a DOS based tool designed for students with cheap/old computers so they can access the Internet. It includes embedded POPmail, news, ftp, telnet, ping etc. It is available anonymous FTP from boombox.micro.umn.edu /pub/pc/minuet/beta16/minuarc.exe or /pub/pc/minuet/shaky/minuarc.exe <--beta17 SLIP software that goes with it is at /pub/pc/slip/latest/sliparc.exe The beta17 has caused no problems for me yet. Beta17 has some performance advantages. A 386 should be no problem at all. --------------------------------------------------------------- P M Dierking xpat@vm1.spcs.umn.edu