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From: jmward@elbert.uccs.edu (Joel M. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD questions
Date: 12 Jul 1993 16:40:19 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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Benjamin Z. Goldsteen (ben@rex.uokhsc.edu) wrote:
: -Why was tip/cu essentially dropped? Is it really expected that I
: download everything onto DOS floppies and then read them back using
: mread? I hesitate bring my PC into work to connect it to the network --
: using the modem automates the process (I do it over night)? To get it
: to work, I had to create /var, /var/spool, /var/spool/lock (or was it
: uucp?) and copy "tip" to "cu" ( because there was no "ln"). To figure
: out what I had to do, I had to extract base08 on my main UNIX machine
: and browse through the man pages.
I use tip all the time. And i use ln all the time too. It
worked for me right out of the box.
: -After I was able to get the modem to function under NetBSD, I had a few
: problems with rz. Is there a problem with using a newer version of RZ?
: This one lacks crash recovery and multiple file receives (the latter can
: be handled by a tedious shell loop).
I got a zmodem package, and it referred to the fact that it wasn't
meant to be used as a tip interface. I couldn't get it to work at all with
tip, so i guess they weren't kidding :) They seem to want you to buy thier
comm package, but i don't think so! Has anyone hacked it up to work with
tip? Casue if not, i may look into it.
: -How do I change the system's timezone? Do I just move the symbolic
: link in /etc to point to the midwest rather than the pacific? On
That's what i did, it worked fine.
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++Joel;