taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (09/07/90)
As some of you might have read in MacWorld (and MacWEEK?), the Italian
company List has arranged for UniPress Software to be their US
distributor of a package called MacNIX. The package offers a
multiplexed / demultiplexed connection over arbitrary speed and quality
connections, allowing, for example, a Mac like file browser that's
actually interacting with a remote Unix machine while SIMULTANEOUSLY
having a terminal window or two. What's coolest about this is that it
can do this over serial lines (e.g. modems) as well as higher speed
connections.
Or can it? I've got the package, and can't get it to work right
connecting my Mac to an HP 9000 computer. The terminal window, for
example, doesn't echo what is typed in until something happens in
another window (e.g. packet buffering delays), and if a file is
transferred in either direction I get a "lost connection to server"
error on the Mac. Quite a drag.
I'm trying to work with List on the problem, but with them being in
Italy, as you might expect, it's a pain (even using AppleLink), and so I
was wondering if anyone else out there in netland had any experience
with this product, either good or bad.
Thanks!!
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor
--- The obligatory technical details:
The Mac:
Mac IIci, 8MB, running MultiFinder 6.04 and System 6.01
The HP:
HP 9000/340 running HP-UX 6.5
The connection:
19200 dedicated serial line