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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!uknet!warwick!qmw-dcs!qmw!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!brian
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Auto SLIP Login ? 
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 23:24:24 +0000
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In article <740163054snz@triton.demon.co.uk> Paul@triton.demon.co.uk writes:

>I saw posted here a few weeks ago, that someone had an auto dialup
>script for SLIP.  Not needing it at the time I took lttle notice (ummmm...)
>
>Now I could really do with a script to run slattach, cu etc to autolog to
>a remote node.
>
>Does anybody have such a usefull beast ?
>
>Cheers,
>
>        Paul
>-- 

This was probably me !

I've just completed a port of a lump of software found at

	ftp.demon.co.uk:pub/slip/csn-slip-package.tar.Z

It allows me to set up a login script, and an entry in /etc/remote, type

	slip gate (as uid 0)

and _WOW_ ... I have a slip connection that hangs around until it gets a
signal and then drops the line.

Now here's a question for you (if you're interested - and you seem to be).
You must bear in mind that I'm a complete virgin in this game.....

How do I update the above source ?

Do I mail the author ?

Do I send to a special place on ftp.demon.co.uk ?

Do I mail postmaster@gate.demon.co.uk ?

Do I pass it around to interested people via uuencoded mail ?

Do I dump it in this newsgroup for everyone to pick up ? - I have to get an
answer now !

What's the general procedure ?


-- 
Brian Somers