PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) (09/14/90)
Colleague has just gotten a Mac and does some work from home dialling up the Sun-3 via a 9600 baud modem... sure would be nice to run X on the Mac. If he got any (either?) of the Mac X products, would it be a cinch to get it working if he had SLIP? Anyone got relevant experience of the Mac X products? Can you get them bundled with SLIP; if not, where can you get SLIP for the Mac? Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (09/14/90)
In article <900913143141.00000BC6091@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV>, PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes: > Colleague has just gotten a Mac and does some work from home dialling > up the Sun-3 via a 9600 baud modem... sure would be nice to run X on > the Mac. If he got any (either?) of the Mac X products, would it be > a cinch to get it working if he had SLIP? Anyone got relevant > experience of the Mac X products? Can you get them bundled with SLIP; > if not, where can you get SLIP for the Mac? > > Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov) This is an ongoing question. Here is the answer as best I know and can currently say. There currently is no SLIP for MacTCP (which both X products use). Keep your eyes open though, sometime around the end of October you should find what you seek. Just as an aside, TCP/Coect II contains SLIP as well as SMTP/POP, NNTP, etc. You could dialup with it and do a lot of what you want (no X though). Hope that helps. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.