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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit and ppp...
Date: 2 Nov 1995 23:17:38 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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Message-ID: <47bjii$12d@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
References: <DGp99H.587@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <DGxA5J.1oM@seeware.dialix.oz.au> <470bv0$150@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DHE2C7.1Cu@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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In article <DHE2C7.1Cu@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>,
Mark Hannon <mark@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au> wrote:
>Fair enough, only problem is that I have never been able to get kermit
>to dial and then pppd to pick up quick enough so that the line hasn't
>dropped before pppd starts.

Use the suspend command in your dialling script to put kermit in the
background. I do

; [Dial up and log in]
!/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/cuaa1 57600
suspend

James
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