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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: freebsd & x86 assembly lang Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 21:45:33 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 22 Message-ID: <323C78FD.159@www.play-hookey.com> References: <323C8D2F.1C08@lis.ab.ca> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) james earl wrote: > > I am curious to know if there is an assembler for freebsd? If yes, what > are the major differences I will encounter coming from coding in TASM's > Ideal mode? > > Also, my connection to the internet is via a dial-up dynamic ppp > connection. What is the simplest way to have my freebsd system fetch > mail upon connection, so I don't have to use a mail client or something? I would suggest popclient or a similar package. You should be able to have it run upon completion of an IP connection, perhaps from one of the scripts in /etc/ppp that you have to set up to make and complete the connections. Maybe you could call it from ppp.linkup? It would then run each time you logged in to your ISP. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |