shields@nccnat.yorku.ca (Paul Shields) (01/18/90)
My big wish for 1990 is to get the following: Software running on IBM PC under DOS (with complimentary software running on SCO/Xenix) to emulate a vt100 or other terminal with an underlying transfer protocol that will allow users to dial up to a SCO/Xenix host and, perhaps, read news or play games, while the system transfers files (transparently) from the host to the PC or vice versa. The above would be an acceptable solution to a problem that I've been banging my head up against: the fact that relatively computer-illiterate users must go through a long string of esoteric commands to do any file transfers, and must sit and wait while the transfer is in progress instead of lining up more files for the system to transfer. I'm talking about dividing the bandwidth of the single serial line into two "virtual" lines, one doing file transfers and one for interactive use. Would it be useful for me to investigate the potential uses of SLIP? How fast should my modems be? How much of what I want will it do? What else do I need? Please reply and/or post your answers. Thanks in advance, -- Paul Shields, shields@nccn.yorku.ca (...uunet!yunccn!shields)