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MIDINET indeed is a networking program. You may connect up to 15
Ataris in a ring, as I recall each may be about 50 yards away from
the next one. You are able to send and receive mails via an
accessory and you have access to mass storage devices of other
Ataris. Although it works with the MIDI ports, the max. transfer
rate is 1700 Byte/sec. The packet consists of 4 files:
MIDINET.ACC
MIDINET.RSC
MIDINET.PRG
MIDINET.INF
All this was announced and described in the german magazine 68000er
in February 1988 (by chance I got this magazine on my desk right
in the moment), and the program is on Readers Service Diskette #3/88.
As far as I know diskettes from this magazine cost about 10$
(27.-DM). The program itself is PD. I don't know if anybody already
uploaded it to the net.
Bernd
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| I run the KA9Q TCP/IP package between my two ST's on the MIDI ports.
It supports FTP, SMTP, FINGER, and TELNET. You have to be running NET
on both nodes to access it (it's not a device driver). Mostly I just
FTP. It has a filename parsing problem with the ST that means I can
only access files on one remote disk partition. I have all the
sources, and know where to fix this problem, but haven't yet figured
out how to rebuild it so that it works.
I've heard third hand that it works for connecting to Ultrix using SLIP
on a dial-up port. I haven't tried this (yet).
I don't have the executable on line at DEC, but I will upload it when I
get a chance. In the meantime, you can read the documentation (such as
there is) is in PRNSYS::DUA2:[LOMICKAJ.HOBBY.ST]NET.DOC. The sources are
in NET.ZOO for the adventuresome. It is supposed to be able to be built
with MWC.
The "MIDINET.ARC" in my directory was not for public access (and was
protected), as it was an early experiment by somebody else. I never
got it to work, and it is now gone. I have another one at home that
somebody wrote in PASCAL that works only occasionally.
BTW. PRNSYS is 5.199. If you can't get to it as PRNSYS::, you can
always get to it as 5319::.
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