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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: kermit & ppp
Date: 5 Jan 1995 16:31:57 -0600
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References: <D1s1s4.Dvw@discus.technion.ac.il> <3ehb2o$ecn@shore.shore.net>
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In article <3ehb2o$ecn@shore.shore.net>, shawn <shawn@oa.com> wrote:
>In article <D1s1s4.Dvw@discus.technion.ac.il>, s2466901@techst02.technion.ac.il (Levy Eliav ) says:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I'm using kermit to establish a ppp connection,
>> How can i "quit" kermit and activate pppd without hanging up the line ?
>
>         Good question???  

Tell your modem not to hangup when the state of the DTR line changes...

C-Kermit> connect
+++
OK
at&d0
OK

This has the drawback that BSD won't be able to hangup the modem but
you can write a kermit script to do that and invoke it after you close
your ppp connection.

C.












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