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The Internet Adapter (TIA). A programfrom Cyberspace Development which runs on a Unix shellaccount and acts as a SLIP emulator. A TIA emulated SLIPaccount is not quite the same as a real SLIP account but TIA'sSLIP emulation is completely standard in terms of working withMacTCP-based software on the Macintosh (or WinSock on aMicrosoft Windows machine).You do not get your own Internet Address as you do with areal SLIP account, instead, TIA uses the IP number of themachine it runs on and "redirects" traffic back to you. Youcannot set up your machine as an FTP server, for instance,since there's no IP number for an FTP client elsewhere toconnect to.TIA's performance is reportedly good, faster than normal SLIPin fact, and about as fast as Compressed SLIP. Futurereleases will support CSLIP and even PPP.Cyberspace Development has ported TIA to several versions ofUnix and more are on the way.TERM is a free program which performs a similar functionbetween two machines both running Unix. (http://marketplace.com/).Setting up TIA(http://webcom.com/~llarrow/tiarefg.html).Telnet (telnet://marketplace.com).Gopher (gopher://marketplace.com/).FTP (ftp://marketplace.com/tia/).E-mail: .