Submitted by Luke Brown with some changes and additions by weave.
First, you need to have dial-up networking installed. From the Control Panel, go to Add/Remove Programs, and under the Communications group, check Dial-Up Networking. It also helps to have Dial-up Scripting installed. If you have the Windows 95 PLUS Pack, install it and run the Internet wizard. That helps a lot and will create an icon in the Dial-Up networking folder. If not, try opening the "Make New Connection" icon in the dial-up networking folder.
Right click the new icon in dialup networking and select properties. Click server-type button, unset netbios and ipx checkboxes, make sure tcp/ip is checked. Also check the compression box. Now click the TCP/IP properties box and enter the values described in the main slirp page. Click OK when done.
You have a chance to configure your modem here, but there's nothing special about it. Then you're asked for the phone number, and you're done! Now you have to tell it what kind of server it will run...
Now it's finally set up. Selecting the icon will get it to dial, and you'll then have a small window working as a primitive terminal program. (So primitive that ANY control character is represented as a block, but hey, it gets the job done.) You are expected to do whatever you have to do on the remove computer, and then select the Continue button. In our case, you would connect to hopi from the com server, log in as usual, put the com server in binary mode, and finally exec slirp. Hitting Continue will cause your computer to begin its SLIP stuff, and after a few seconds, you'll be connected!
NOTE: SLIP support is included separately on the Windows 95 CD or in the Windows 95 resource kit (for $49.95 in most book stores). You can also now use PPP (which comes with the basic Windows 95) by using the -P flag to SLiRP. If you do do that, you can automate your login session by running the Dialup-Scripting Tool program that is in the accessories folder in your start menu. Make sure you attach this sample script file which should hopefully work for you. Attach it to the dialup-session name you defined above using the scripting tool program. If it doesn't work, try this alternate version submitted by Joe Osowski.
Last page update: 04 February 1996
Source Document: None
Official URL for this page:
http://www.stanton.dtcc.edu/stanton/cs/slirp/win95.html
Author: Luke Brown