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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!158.250.39.26!Gamma.RU!srcc!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!mpifr-bonn.mpg.de !fs1.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de!souva From: souva@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Subject: Re: cis @ netbsd In-Reply-To: Peter.Magnusson@mbox300.swipnet.se's message of 15 Feb 1997 19:49:27 Message-ID: <SOUVA.97Feb21211924@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> Sender: news@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de Nntp-Posting-Host: aibn55 Reply-To: isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de Organization: Radioastronomisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, FRG References: <SOUVA.97Feb15161109@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> <5e5485$8g@mn5.swip.net> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 20:19:24 GMT Lines: 12 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5512 Peter, read the PPP and SLIP specifications please. it is _impossible_ to do PPP or SLIP over non-8bit-clean lines. You can escape some charactes with PPP, but not all of (say)the upper 128 values, because escaping is done by XORing in 0x40. Regards, Ignatios Souvatzis Maintainer of the PPP frequently wanted information periodic posting. -- NetBSD 1.0 is a release version, Linux 0.9??? still beta. (Matthias Scheler) I doubt that this distinction matters that much for Linux. (Hamish Macdonald)