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From: brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to get/install the latest ppp in 2.1.6?
Date: 17 Feb 1997 18:36:28 GMT
Organization: Utell International
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Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote:
: In article <qld7e5.881.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com>,
: 	conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
: > Any advice on what would be the best/easiest way to update my ppp in 2.1.6
: > to the new, improved version?  I'd *really* like to have that -ddial
: > option!
: > 
: > Don't want to do a full OS upgrade, just this one program.

: Done.  Pulled the sources out of FreeBSD-CURRENT/src/usr.sbin/ppp.

: Oh, one minor problem: the file uucplock.c was missing.  Used the one from
: 2.1.6.

: Seems to be working just fine under 2.1.6.

uucplock.c should be found in "../../sbin/startslip" ;)  It's not actually
missing.

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