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Subject: Re: Autodial slip for NetBSD
Message-ID: <1993Jun4.183650.52908@ucl.ac.uk>
From: ubacr45@ucl.ac.uk (Mr G Toal)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 18:36:50 GMT
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In article <C83JBt.2L2@unice.demon.co.uk> chris@unice.demon.co.uk (Chris Boyes) writes:
>Some time ago I saved a very comprehesive perl script posted by
>Graham Toal but not being familiar with perl and a rusty/lazy
>programmer found it too complex

It wasn't perl, it was 'expect', and it called tip as if it had been
called by hand.  I still use it though I'm not entirely happy with it.
(And I deleted the sources to make room on my machine, and the copy
of the sources I left on dorothy.ibmpcug.co.uk died when the machine
died :-( )

Graham