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April 2000, Week 4

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Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]>
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Doug Werth <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:25:51 -0400
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Wirt writes:
>
> If you want an unabashedly honest opinion, mine would be that you simply
> abandon AFCP (and implicitly therefore terminals) as soon as possible
and
> move over to a simple TCP/IP, PC- and JetDirect printer-based network.
> Routable AFCP simply isn't worth the time or trouble that you'll put
into it,
> especially compared to what you could have had in a TCP/IP network by
> comparison.

Furthermore, if you absolutely, positively must have dumb terminals you
could replace the DTCs with telnet terminal servers at the remote end.

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
[log in to unmask]                               Cincinnati, Ohio

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