#Communications
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Patricia,
There is a whole host of telecom programs available in Library 5 of
this forum. If your Unix machine is running BSD4.x or a close derivative
(SunOS, e.g.), then look into DNet, by Matt Dillon. It will allow you to
have multiple shell windows and file transfers running simultaneously.
Unfortunately, DNet doesn't work with System V. For that you'll need a
regular terminal program, like VLT.
–dds (…on AutoPilot)
I believe that DNet will work on a System V box, *if* that box supports
UNIX domain sockets. Might take a little code hacking to port it, but the
UDS is the big thing you need.
Steve
Steve,
You may be right. However, I've never seen a SysV box that supports
BSD Sockets, yet will support DNet. I used to use a machine that
supposedly supported BSD Sockets, but DNet wouldn't compile, let alone
run. I didn't worry about it much, though, since the office Sun 3/160 ran
DNet just fine, and I could rlogin to my workstation from there.
–dds (…on AutoPilot)
There are a number of System V boxes that have BSD sockets, but you're
right, not all do. Anyway, even if the machine supports sockets, unless
they support UNIX domain sockets, DNET won't work. Some just support
stream and datagram sockets, but not UNIX domain sockets.
Ste