phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) (02/26/88)
I Have a question for the readership..... I would like to set up some communication between the network at school and my Amiga at home that is more sophisticated than VT100 and kermit. Every afternoon I am faced with a 30 to 60 minute drive from school to home. It would be nice if I could batch up any file transfers and have them happen during that time (while I am driving, my bits can be flying). What I would like to do is set up something on the Amiga that would automatically dial in to school sometime in the afternoon to allow for the transferrs. I know I can do this with a uucp implementation (provided it supports polling, which most do, don't they?). But I was wondering if any of the more recent protocol implementations would have this capability or would be easy to graft something like this on to. Specifically, the SLIP/TCP stuff or DNET. I know DNET is still in alpha test, so it is probably not full-featured. Matt, is some capability like this eventually going to exist? Does it already? How about the SLIP stuff? The only real problem I see with SLIP is supporting it on the Unix end (we have Suns and no kernel source). Any takers? William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>