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- From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Multiplexing terminal
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 10:33:08 GMT
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- Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar (rick@ee.uwm.edu) wrote:
- :
- : 2.) Then there's "term-0.99p", which will multiplex the connection
- :
- : [ Nice description of term deleted. ]
- :
- : One thing I haven't *seen* done yet is a port-redirected MUD.
- : The big complaint that system administrators have about MUDs is
- : the disk/memory/cpu load that they put on their systems... but
- : if you run the actual MUD on your Linux box with the Inet port
- : redirected through an Inet-connected machine, all that remote
- : machine will see is the traffic load... No more complaints about
- : disk/memory/cpu-hogging! Yet, to the rest of the world it would
- : appear that the MUD was running on that remote host.
-
- This is fine if you can maintain a 24 hr dialup. :) You admin's might
- look at you a little strangely if you are logged on 24 hrs a day.
-
- I have heard of someone does do this on an intermitted basis. Not a
- permenant mud, just an experimental one.
-
- : I see the potential here for some *serious* Linux inter-networking.
- : For those who have user-access accounts, but can't get a SLIP account,
- : "term" seems to be the next best thing.
-
- I think so. But then I wrote it. :) "I like it so much, I went out and
- wrote it!".
-
- : I can't remember the anonymous ftp site to get it from, but
- : you can get that and more info on the linux-activists TERM
- : channel. Send mail to linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi
- : with the FIRST LINE being:
- :
- : X-Mn-Admin: join term
- :
- : You will then be added to the list, and you'll receive more info
- : on how to post to the list as well.
-
- Term you can get from nic.funet.fi:pub/OS/Linux/BETA/term099q.tar.Z
- also from tartarus.uwa.edu.au:/pub/oreillym/term/term099q.tar.Z
-
- BTW. Term just got re-named. Term 1.0.0 will be released soon, and
- from tell, all new version will go under the name "SLAP". (Serial Line
- Access Protocol). Name was selected mostly for the puns it produces.
- :) Thanks to Carl Von L. for suggesting the name.
-
- : Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
- Michael
-