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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with FREEBSD & modem Date: 23 May 1996 22:22:06 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4o2oee$5e6@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <1996May22.213817@clstac> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <1996May22.213817@clstac>, KEVIN T. NGUYEN - TU <tnguyentu@csupomona.edu> wrote: >is tehre a way to connect my computer using a 28.8k + modem under >FREEBSD? Please Yep, FreeBSD has PPP support built in. If you go to http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html, the section entitled 'Setting up user PPP' has a step-by-step guide on how to set it up. >If i want to transfer file from the Win95 to the FREEBSD or vice >versa, how would i go about doing it? Unfortunately, FreeBSD and Win95 cannot read each other's partitions, so there isn't any way to do this, apart from copying files onto a DOS floppy. Or copying over a network. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk