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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: non-interactive user ppp access?
Date: 5 Nov 1996 17:40:02 -0000
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In article <327e4abd.151156@netnews.hinet.net>,
vcba79@ms1.hinet.net (Vincent Chen) writes:
:
: Hello,
:
: Can I dialup to my ISP by user ppp and this process
: won't occupy a console? I already wrote a working
: script for my ISP but this dialup access still give me
: prompt and wait for command. Is there any way to
: operate user ppp more like dip? dip <script> will
: connect and dip -k will hangup the call.
I'd suggest running ppp -auto and using my tcpchat program (on the web page
below) to control what it does.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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