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From: Joel Sutton <suttonj@interconnect.com.au>
To: Capriotti <capriott@uol.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Connecting MACs to Free ? 
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> Any suggestion on how to connect MACs to a Free ?
> Use TCP/IP ?

There are, of course a few ways to do it. Most of them have been 
mentioned already. Netatalk, CAP etc...

I use MacPPP and MacTCP on my Macintosh Classic. I connect it to my 
FBSD system via a serial link. It's a bit slow but I'm stuck with it 
I guess. :-) Ethernet is definitely the way to go if possible. 
Unfortunately a majority of the recent software doesn't run on my Mac 
Classic (limited to System 6) but NCSA telnet and Fetch do everything 
I need. 

As an alternative to TCP/IP, there are a few free, and 
commercial, UUCP packages available with email/news readers to match. 
These are ideally suited to offline access but they can be good if 
you can't get networking software to work on an older mac. Check out 
your favorite mac ftp archive for those bits and pieces and, also, 
read the book "Using and Managing UUCP" published my O'Reilly & 
Associates. I've just picked up my copy from my local book shop and 
I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty. :-)

Hope this helps. Cheers, Joel...