#tcp/slip
No AmigaNOS version that I have seen allows the use of the PARAM command
to do anything with the serial.device other the enquire about or set the
modem (data) rate. No Amiga version, including v2.9j, provides for any
kind of "slip dialing".
I know that the base program, KA9Q, has more capabilities in the MS-DOS
world. We use it at our university for some people (and use the Clarkson
(packet) drivers (?)).
The Amiga version, however, does not allow you to share the Amiga
serial.device so there is no way you can start up any other program to
initiate a dial-up call and then bring up AmigaNOS to "take over".AmigaNOS
attaches the serial.device in "exclusive" mode. I have a local CBM
developer looking at the code, but he can't get it to compile under SAS
V6.
AmigaNOS v2.9j has no additional commands for SLIP. The source for v2.9g
HAD SLIP with it, though I don't know if the SLIP component was included
in the v2.9g compile. This addition, however, was just the raw packet
formatter, which requires the serial.device to be already initialized
(since it has no such code).
If anybody has SAS V6, and has free access to Internet, I would appreciate
it if they would contact the CBM developer from our local Amiga User Group
and see if you can help him figure out how to get AmigaNOS v2.9g (since
the source for v2.9j hasn't appeared in CIS yet) to compile correctly
under SAS V6 (he gets wierd errors that I can't even begin to explain).
His Internet address is: "jimdawson@cup.portal.com". Thanks.
Real World:southern Illinois,USA Internet:ca0008 at siucvmb.siu.edu