This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Term
Article: 7425 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: mark@zang.kcc.hawaii.edu (Mark (Mookie)) Subject: Re: Term X-Nntp-Posting-Host: zang.kcc.hawaii.edu Message-ID: D4A06p.AqM@news.hawaii.edu Sender: news@news.hawaii.edu Organization: University of Hawaii X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 01:59:13 GMT Approved: none needed. Lines: 18 Status: RO
Jeevan Anandasakaran (jeevan@chinook.halcyon.com) wrote: >Okay, what exactly does the program "term" do? It's on the Un*x box that >my Internet provider uses, but what good is it? Thanks. It lets you run a packetised link between your dialup host and your local unix machine. You can then telnet out, ftp out, irc, www, gopher et al with termified clients that have been (trivially) changed to use term instead of normal direct IP. You can get term from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/apps/comms/term/* I use it exclusively as I have modified it to be one way, i.e. noone externally can get into my machine, so its more secure than slip or ppp and possibly tia. ObHack: Encrypted dcc chat and multi dcc chat in irc.o Mark
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