From ais.net!support Thu Nov 16 15:21:54 1995 Return-Path: Message-Id: Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 15:21 CST X-Sender: support@mailhost.ais.net To: rjneff (Robert Neff) From: AIS Technical Support Subject: Re: Shell -> PPP Robert - Good news and possible bad news here. The good news is that you will not loose your home page at all. The bad news is that there would be a change to the interface that you would use to access the files that make up your home page. You could use a telnet client to connect to our site after moving to PPP, but other than that, the files will still work the same. Charles, AIS Support support@ais.net > > Hello there! > > Just put in my html homepage today, and checked it out from another account - > great fun! My question is, now that I feel ready to migrate to a SLIP/PPP > account, will I lose my shell account (including my homepage)? > > I looked at the information from info@ais.net and they say that the SLIP/PPP > account has x features, plus y features from the shell account. That seems > to imply we retain the shell, but homepages were not mentioned. > > Thanks, > _-+--_ > RoBert Neff - /__|__|\___ > rjneff@eagle.ais.net - /--\| |/--4\ > Palatine IL, USA - o 8 o L+|/\||__||/\||U > (air-cooled VW fan) - O \/ \/ > > _/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ AIS Technical Support _/ _/ _/ _/ American Information Systems, Inc. _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ E-mail: support@ais.net, http://www.ais.net From ais.net!support Fri Nov 17 10:26:35 1995 Return-Path: Message-Id: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 95 10:26 CST X-Sender: support@mailhost.ais.net To: rjneff (Robert Neff) From: AIS Technical Support Subject: Re: Shell -> PPP At 08:22 PM 11/16/95 -0600, you wrote: >> > My question is, now that I feel ready to migrate to a SLIP/PPP >> > account, will I lose my shell account (including my homepage)? >Now let's clarify that to make sure I know what you're saying, and then >I'll be out of your hair - my files, including ~/Mail/*, .cshrc, and >~/public_html/* will remain, but I won't be in a true Unix shell anymore >(I can't vi, for instance)? I did a man on telnet and I've used it >in narrowly defined situations, but I don't know what all can be supported >using it. The shell account is used for UNIX-style access. SLIP/PPP is used for graphical programs. The SLIP/PPP programs interpret the commands and converts them to UNIX style commands. To use the SLIP/PPP software, you have to first download it. It is avaliable by typing WINSLIP at the shell prompt. Just make sure the terminal program supports Z-Modem. The file is a self extracting ZIP file. After you extract it, look at the Readme.txt file. HTH, Chris _/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/_/ AIS Technical Support _/ _/ _/ _/ American Information Systems, Inc. _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ E-mail: support@ais.net, http://www.ais.net