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<H1><A NAME="SECTION006100000">Communication Software for Modem Links</A></H1>
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<A NAME="serialsoftware"></A>
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There are a number of communication packages available for . Many
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of them are <em>terminal programs</em> which allow a user to dial into
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another computer as if she was sitting in front of a simple terminal.
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The traditional terminal program for is kermit. It is,
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however, somewhat Spartan. There are more comfortable programs
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available that support a dictionary of telephone numbers, script languages
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for calling and logging into remote computer systems, etc. One of them
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is minicom, which is close to some terminal programs former
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DOS users might be accustomed to. There are also X-based communications
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packages, e.g. seyon.
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Also, a number of -based BBS packages are available for people
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that want to run a bulletin board system. Some of these packages can be
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found at sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/system/Network.
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Apart from terminal programs, there is also software that uses a serial
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link non-interactively to transport data to or from your computer. The
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advantage of this technique is that it takes much less time to download
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a few dozen kilobytes automatically, than it might take you to read your
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mail on-line in some mailbox and browse a bulletin board for interesting
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articles. On the other hand, this requires more disk storage because of
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the loads of useless information you usually get.
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The epitome of this sort of communications software is UUCP. It is a
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program suite that copies files from one host to another, executes
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programs on a remote host, etc. It is frequently used to transport mail
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or news in private networks. Ian Taylor's UUCP package, which also runs
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under , is described in the following chapter. Other
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non-interactive communication software is, for example, used throughout
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Fidonet. Ports of Fidonet applications like ifmail are also
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available.
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SLIP, the serial line Internet protocol, is somewhat in-between,
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allowing both interactive and non-interactive use. Many people
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use SLIP to dial up their campus network or some other sort of
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public SLIP server to run FTP sessions, etc. SLIP may however also
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be used over permanent or semi-permanent connections for LAN-to-LAN
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coupling, although this is really only interesting with ISDN.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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