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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When can we expect 2.2 release CD?
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 06:23:11 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc.
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In article <5ecdoq$e3g@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>,
brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
> Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote:
> [.....]
>: Here's an opportunity just waiting for some noble hacker-type person out
>: there to fill a need. :-) Ideally, pour moi, an "auto-redial after drop"
>: option that could be used with -auto and that still honored the idle
>: timeout setting would be just the ticket (for those cron-spawned news
>: downloads, etc.). If I use -ddial (with my non-dedicated account), my
>: ISP's gonna get pissed at me for sure. :-)
>
>: Any takers? :-)
>
> I'll put it on my (ever-increasing) to-do list. I've nearly got a
> development machine up & running again (after breaking the lid off
> the last one) !
Great! Thank you so much!
I'd undertake it myself, but...while my knowledge of the C language itself
is good enough for porting and a little hacking, my knowledge of sockets
and such leaves much to be desired. :-)
Conrad, whose reference library is sorely in need of further expansion
--
Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads