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From: Terrance Richard Boyes <tez@pierrot.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 96 03:41:59 +0100
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Charles Reese (reese@chem.duke.edu) wrote:
> 
> I also connect via a dial up account, it is to Duke University but it 
> shouldn't make much difference who provides your ISP service.  If you 
> have a shell account on your ISP machine (ie you can login directly or 
> use telnet via PPP or SLIP to get a login shell) you can start a lynx 

Yes, we know what a shell account is, but as has been mentioned several times
already in this thread, demon do _not_ provide one.

Followups hacked.

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