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  • From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood AT shentel.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Direct dialup connection
  • Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:06:30 -0500

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:53:11 -0500 (EST), Sindi Keesan wrote:

> Why do you want to use the ppp-setup instead of a dialing program such as
> miniterm or kermit? I don't recommend miniterm, it does not do very well
> at my bbs, but kermit works great and someone at kermit specially compiled
> it to work with our old library. Download the 2M file and chmod +x and
> put it somewhere on the path named kermit. There is a link at James'
> download site. It may be too large for the RAMdisk version of BL2.

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 sheywood AT shentel.net wrote:

>> Is there a way to configure the ppp-setup program that comes with
>> BasicLinux 2.1 to use it for a direct dialup connection, as for
>> connecting with a BBS? If so, please tell me how.

>> TIA,

>> Sam Heywood
>> -- Message handled by BasicLinux, v. 2.1
>> -- See "http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/";


Hello Sindi:

Thanks for the info.

The reason why I would much rather prefer ro use a program that comes
with BasicLinux is stated in the last sentence of your reply.

Sam Heywood




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