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From: ajs6143@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Andy Stefancik)
Subject: Re: ppp help (please)
Message-ID: <EBpvJx.n2w@bcstec.ca.boeing.com>
Organization: The Boeing Company
References: <5nqs9l$25h$1@bigdog.eli.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 13:45:33 GMT
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In article <5nqs9l$25h$1@bigdog.eli.net>,  <philh@imall.com> wrote:
>I have just installed bsdi 3.0 on my home machine, and am finding
>getting dialout ppp running very non-trivial.  I spoke with someone at
>support and they told me to get the 3.0 patches, and there's something
>in there supposedly to make it much easier.  Problem is, I don't know
>how to get them to my machine from the ftp site.  mount_msdos seems to
>be broken or else I'd just download them to my dos drive.  I don't
>seem to have rz, so I can't even zmodem the things.
>
>Surely there must be a less miserable way to go about this.  Could
>someone lend me a hand?
>

I would ask bsdi to mail me the patches on some media like floppy or
tape.  They have been very good about things like this in the past.

Andy Stefancik