Re: Yarn and PPP accounts?

From: Ben C. O. Grimm - Libertatis Praesidium NL - (BenGrimm@xs4all.nl)
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 07:17:38 +0200

In article <G07S1cGUbNcX092yn@gate.net>,
jstanley@gate.net (John A. Stanley) wrote:

> In article </snS1YI7x1Da091yn@cpcug.org>,
> rronkin@cpcug.org (R. R. Ronkin) wrote:

> >Without practical alternatives, we shall soon be changing our Internet
> >account from shell to PPP. Will Yarn work with a standard PPP dialup
> >account? Special provisions? Thanks for your comments.

> Yarn will work fine, but you'll need to run a utility like Souper on
> your PPP connection to create the SOUP packets like uqwk did on the
> shell.

As long as the provider in question still offers shell access
(over the PPP connection) there's really no need to switch to
Souper. Just run a telnet application with zmodem for the
transfers.

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