From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 20:16:03 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #144 Linux-Admin Digest #144, Volume #2 Tue, 4 Oct 94 20:16:03 EDT Contents: Re: Non-root can't start X (Dan Wold) Re: Good dirs to move to sep file systems? (David Fox) Re: Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy (Myung Cho 40-242E) Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? (Kevin Cummings) Re: /dev/audio: No such file or directory (Kevin Cummings) Re: packet size w/ uucp? (Kevin Cummings) Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux (Mark Johnson) Re: Modem Question .. (Super-User) Re: Modem Question .. (Super-User) Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Patrick J. Volkerding) Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Olli Vinberg) Re: SCSI Scanner usage within LINUX? (Byron A Jeff) Re: Slip autoanswer (Byron A Jeff) Modem Question .. (Tony_Teague) Re: PPP vs SLIP? (Glen Niebur) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: danw@panix.com (Dan Wold) Subject: Re: Non-root can't start X Date: 3 Oct 1994 01:27:38 -0400 Thanks to all who replied with the solution to my problem. I just made Xconfig accessible to my login and everything works fine. -Dan -- danw@panix.com Daniel Wold 239 City Island Ave, Bronx, NY, 10464 finger danw@danw.dialup.access.net Sysop: WORLD CITIZEN BBS 718-885-2346 14.4 24 hrs FREE Fidonet BahaiNet ------------------------------ From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: Good dirs to move to sep file systems? Date: 03 Oct 1994 10:24:02 GMT In article <36nrpa$dsa@aqua.rerf.or.jp> demarest@rerf.or.jp (Timothy Demarest) writes: ] What do you recommend for splitting across several file systems? I dont ] want to move anything that I may need on the root partition in an emergency! The first and most important thing to move is /home. -- David Fox xoF divaD NYU Media Research Lab baL hcraeseR aideM UYN ------------------------------ From: mcho@ba4_50.sbi.com (Myung Cho 40-242E) Subject: Re: Can Linux Mount a Mac Floppy Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 14:07:56 GMT In article <1994Oct2.125653.291@acad.ursinus.edu> STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys) writes: Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin From: STEVO@acad.ursinus.edu (Steve Kneizys) Date: 2 Oct 94 12:56:53 EST Organization: Ursinus College Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer) (bass@cais2.cais.com) wrote: : Got some ASCII text files on my Powerbook... Would like to write them : to the PB floppy and then mount the floppy on my linux box and : read the ascii text (and do some other stuff). I haven't seen this : in any FAQ or the The Linux Bible. Any clues for the clueless ;-) Well, my solution is, instead of making Linux understand the Mac format why not make the Mac understand a format Linux does! I have to exchange data between Mac, PC, VAX, Unix, and use FTP for most of it. But when I do flopppy exchange, I use a DOS formatted floppy... the Dayna product DOSMOUNTER for Mac lets me mount Dos floppies on the Mac, write ascii files, then mount on Unix, etc. I heard a rumor there was a shareware program that mounted DOS disks on Macs, but never looked into it. But if you want to go this roundabout way then I'd think some Mac folks could help more than I have. Good luck! Steve... Better yet, I use suntar 2.0, a macintosh freeware that reads and writes unix tar format. This way you could tar up all the text right to the floppy on the mac and untar it on the Linux box. No need to go through an intermediate PC format. You can get suntar 2.0 from usual mac archive sites. mcho@mhny Salomon Brothers Inc. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: utah.linux From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten ftape to work? Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:22:08 GMT In article <369rhc$fo6@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>, tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes: > cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings) writes: > > >Yes, FTAPE works, when it is configured and installed correctly. > > This is definitely NOT true, in my experience. > Most if not all earlier versions of ftape did not work, > however you configured them. I've been running an FTAPE since Bas took over maintaining it. It's worked for me since then (386DX-25, Linux 0.99p12 or so). > To get ftape to work, you must upgrade to Linux 1.1.50. > You must then get the latest version of ftape, ftape-1.13b, > and apply ftape-irq-dma.patch to it, > available from sunsite.unc.edu > (I think in pub/Linux/kernel/tapes). > > > I seem to > >remember that if you upgrade your kernel, you need to rebuild FTAPE. > > If you haven't done it, how can you tell people it works? I did it between 0.99p12, 0.99p15, and 1.0.0 (which I've been running for the better part of the last year). If you can remeber EVERYTHING you've done in the last year, you have a better memory than me! -- Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc. cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com ------------------------------ From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: /dev/audio: No such file or directory Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:28:46 GMT In article <94270.222237U37956@uicvm.uic.edu>, writes: > Could you tell what version of kernel and detailed steps to > install the driver? I tried once, but when compiling the driver > programs, it complained one variable undefined. I assigned it a > "reasonable" number and it compiled, but i only hear some noise > when i do "cat somefile.au > /dev/audio". The perhaps you should have assigned it an "unreasonable" number? B^) I seem to remember that early version of the audio driver had some context switching problems. If I tried that under X-windows, output came out in "chunks" with spaces between them. If I left X and tried it again under straight Linux, it came out better (but on my PC speaker, the quality was terrible, but recognizable). Since the documentation said the quality would be terrible on my PC speaker, I didn't worry about it. I've never had the time (or disk space to go back for a more up-to-date version, sorry. So I can't tell you when (or if) they've fixed that problem. One of these days I'll be buying a SoundBlaster-16-ASP. I'll probably retry it again then. -- Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc. cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com ------------------------------ From: cummings@hammer.westboro-ma.peritus.com (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: packet size w/ uucp? Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 15:35:16 GMT In article <1994Sep28.095353.2313@ohbabe.stat.com>, jd@ohbabe.stat.com (John Dee) writes: > Is there a way to increase packet size with UUCP to get a better transfer > rate? Yes, change the protocol you are using. "G" protocol is limited to 64 byte packets, but someone wrote up a "g" protocol which supports larger packet sizes (or do I have them backwards?). BOTH ends of your UUCP connection must support it. Login to your UUCP host by hand and check out the protocols it allows. Or increase your debugging output for one call and look in the log files for it. Then get some documentation on UUCP that describes the various protocols, and see what your options are. (You could always get a faster modem, but that is probably not a useful answer B^). -- Kevin J. Cummings Peritus Software Services, Inc. cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us cummings@peritus.com ------------------------------ From: mjohnson@sparc.uccb.ns.ca (Mark Johnson) Subject: Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux Date: 4 Oct 1994 13:06:47 -0300 In article <36ppta$a0j@news.q8petroleum.com.kw>, Ahmad Al-rasheedan wrote: >Jan Mario Stankovsky (jan@ifs.univie.ac.at) wrote: >: Is there a list of commercial software(i.e. FrameMaker, Smalltalk, a.s.o.) >: available for Linux? Does anybody knows any details if commercial SW will be >: available for Linux someday ? Try: http://www.linux.org.uk/LxCommercial.html Fri Sep 30 12:58:29 1994 Linux Commercial Software Index Mark Johnson johnson@vrlab.uccb.ns.ca ------------------------------ From: root@andante (Super-User) Subject: Re: Modem Question .. Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:28:41 GMT In article , Tony_Teague wrote: >hi, > I want to set up my modem than is connected to my linux box to receive >incoming calls .. Can anyone tell me how to set it up or where I can get the >information from .. > > tony > ------------------------------ From: root@andante (Super-User) Subject: Re: Modem Question .. Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 16:28:53 GMT In article , Tony_Teague wrote: >hi, > I want to set up my modem than is connected to my linux box to receive >incoming calls .. Can anyone tell me how to set it up or where I can get the >information from .. > > tony > ------------------------------ From: gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding) Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! Date: 3 Oct 1994 20:00:30 GMT In article <36pjrk$as1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Byron Faber wrote: >carlos@interport.net (Carlos Dominguez) writes: > >>Will fvwm and its modules work in Xfree3.11? > >yes, if you recompile it. (make sure you recompile libXpm-3.4c as well.) >The reson being they bumped up the major version #'s on the X libraries > libXpm-3.4c _seemed_ to compile fine under XFree86 3.1, but any apps linked with the resulting shared library seg fault when executed. The static version of libXpm works, though. (Mitch - are you planning to look at this?) Pat ... and after that, we can try to figure out XView. 8^O ------------------------------ From: vinberg@cc.Helsinki.FI (Olli Vinberg) Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! Date: 4 Oct 1994 19:25:11 +0200 Reply-To: Olli Vinberg In article <36qbmd$7ra@interport.net>, Carlos Dominguez wrote: >Michael_Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com) wrote: > >: I think I'll wait awhile before attempting 3.1 again... :-( > >I think I'll await for it to become part of a future slackware >distribution . > >I've worked too hard to get X up and running, and to futz with fvwm and >its neat-o window sound event manager, to start from scratch all over again. If you have a card that is supported for 16bpp oar 32bpp and enough video-memory, then go for it! (I have a cheap cirrus 5428-card and 1M of memory on it, so I can only have 800x600 resolution with 16bit colour, but I use it anyway) And the doom-mode is good too :) But if your card is not one of the supported cards or if you are not interested in TruoColor, etc. and use X mainly for xterms, stick with 2.11. -- ======================================================================= Olli Vinberg \ Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. vinberg@cc.helsinki.fi \ Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, http://www.helsinki.fi/~vinberg \ in kernel as it is in user! ------------------------------ From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner usage within LINUX? Date: 1 Oct 1994 13:01:56 GMT In article , Bernd Lehahn wrote: >Hi, > >what does it need to use a HP II cx SCSI scanner from Linux? >If I would be able to use this thingy from Linux, I wont had to switch to >Windows all the time. You're out of luck. No one has been successful in getting enough information from HP (or really any other flatbed scanner manufacturer except for maybe EPSON) to develop a scanner driver. Take a read of the Scanner Info Sheet below. BAJ =============================================================================== LINUX SCANNER INFO SHEET (Last updated October 1, 1994) [This is an editorial comment. I'll have a scattering of these in the document. These are my own personal comments - BAJ ] 1.0 INTRODUCTION ================ Scanner drivers for Linux seem to be few and far between. In addition documentation for the software is non existant. This document attemps to describe the available information about scanners for Linux and propose some directions for future development. The current editor of this document is Byron A. Jeff. I can be reached at byron@cc.gatech.edu. 1.1 The misconception of TWAIN compliancy ========================================= One of the comments I often see is "If we write a TWAIN driver then all scanners will work..." Unfortunately this is an incorrect assertion. TWAIN is a standard that the scanner manufacurers came up with to provide a common, standard interface between their scanners and the DOS/Windows applications that use them. Quick Picture: ###################----------------------------------------- # DOS/WINDOWS APP # # PhotoShop or # This is the application. it can function # PhotoStylers or # with different manufacturers scanners # OCR. # because of the TWAIN interface on the #-----------------# bottom edge. # TWAIN interface # # Application # # Side # ###################----------------------------------------- # TWAIN interface # This is the software driver that comes # Driver Side # with the scanner. It has a TWAIN interface #-----------------# on the top end so that it can mate with # Hardware Driver # different applications. Each hardware driver is different. ###################----------------------------------------- # Scanner Card # ################### This is the scanner hardware. # Scanner # ################### The problem for us Linux folks is twofold: 1) We really don't have any DOS/Windows applications we can run. 2) For each scanner a different Hardware Driver must be written and the hard specifications for that scanner must be available to accomplish this task. So TWAIN doesn't buy us anything in terms of getting a single driver to run all scanners. Anyway TWAIN is just a hack that the Unix/Linux driver interface already solves. So there's no joy here. 2.0 CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ============================= [ Instead of writing about currently available stuff I'll just put the post where I've seen it. If anyone has updated information, let me know.] 2.1 GS4500 Scanner >From jem@sunSITE.unc.edu Sun Dec 12 17:33:43 EST 1993 From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: [Q] Scanner software ? Date: 9 Dec 1993 05:34:36 GMT Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill There is a driver for scanners built on the GS4500 chip-set.. It can be found at: Here is the lsm: Begin2 Title = Scanner driver for GS4500 and lookalikes Version = 1.0 Desc1 = Provides support for using GS4500 class hand Desc2 = scanners with Linux. Author = Richard Lyons AuthorEmail = pclink@qld.npb.telecom.com.au Maintainer = Richard Lyons MaintEmail = pclink@qld.npb.telecom.com.au Site1 = Path1 = File1 = scanner-1.0.tar.gz FileSize1 = 4426 Required1 = GS4500 B&W hand scanner or workalike. CopyPolicy1 = Freely distributable with acknowledgement of author. Keywords = scanner GS4500 Comment1 = Suggestions welcome. Support for other scanners Comment2 = particularly welcome. Entered = 25OCT93 EnteredBy = Richard Lyons CheckedEmail = pclink@qld.npb.telecom.com.au End [ I need to know exactly the brand names of scanners that work with this driver. Also I need to know the type (flattop/handheld), resolution, speed, and #of colors for each. One section of this will have a list of available scanners. Prices and places selling them might also be useful. ] 2.2 Mustek Scanners Subject: ANNOUNCE: scan-driver-0.1.4 available! Hi Linuxers! The subject says it all: scan-driver-0.1.4.tar.gz is available! [ I just checked sunsite (6/25/94) and it's up to 0.1.8. All drivers can be found in /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scanner ] It's a Linux device driver for Mustek M-105 handheld halftone scanners and lookalikes. Included in the package is a simple (S)VGAlib-based demo and a 5-line-script to create a portable bitmap file from the scanned image. I hope you enjoy it! Here is the LSM entry: Begin2 Title = M105 handheld scanner driver Version = 0.1.4 Desc1 = Character device driver for M105 handheld scanner Desc2 = and lookalikes. Author = Thomas Faehnle AuthorEmail = s_faehnle@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de Maintainer = Thomas Faehnle MaintEmail = s_faehnle@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de Site1 = oracle.rz.uni-ulm.de Path1 = /pub/linux/ulm File1 = scan-driver-0.1.4.tar.gz FileSize1 = 10378 Site2 = sunsite.unc.edu Path2 = /pub/Linux/Incoming File2 = scan-driver-0.1.4.tar.gz FileSize2 = 10378 Site3 = tsx-11.mit.edu Path3 = /pub/linux/ALPHA/scanner File3 = scan-driver-0.1.4.tar.gz FileSize3 = 10378 Required1 = M105 scanner or clone with GI1904 interface CopyPolicy1 = GPL Keywords = M105 scanner device driver GI1904 interface RelFiles2 = scandemo -- a (S)VGAlib-based demo RelFiles3 = scan.sh -- script to scan into a pbm file Entered = 11.03.1994 EnteredBy = Thomas Faehnle CheckedEmail = s_faehnle@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de End 2.3 AC4096 0.1 - a scanner driver for the A4 Tech AC4096 color scanner >From beck@informatik.hu-berlin.de Thu Aug 4 20:22:35 EDT 1994 Article: 2608 of comp.os.linux.announce From: Michael Beck Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: scanner driver for the A4 Tech AC 4096 Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: 30 Jul 1994 02:07:19 +0300 Organization: ? Lines: 44 Sender: wirzeniu@cc.Helsinki.FI Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius) Message-ID: <31c237$nh7@kruuna.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: kruuna.helsinki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: scanner, driver AC4096 0.1 - a scanner driver for the A4 Tech AC4096 color scanner This is the 1st release of a scanner driver for the A4 Tech AC4096 scanner. It's now avaible at ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de pub/os/linux/hu-contrib/ac4096.tgz This driver is compatible with the logi32 and m105 scanner drivers, ie it uses the same ioctl interface. It is accompanied by a small demo program called gifscan which will enable you to save your scannings in the popular gif-format. If you find any bugs in there, please report them to me. Here is the lsm file Begin2 Title =Driver for the A4 Tech handheld color scanner AC4096 Version =0.1 Desc1 =DMA driven scanner driver, supports true color and Desc2 =emulated grey and mono modes Author =Michael Beck AuthorEmail =beck@informatik.hu-berlin.de Maintainer =Michael Beck MaintEmail =beck@informatik.hu-berlin.de Site1 =ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de Path1 =pub/os/linux/hu-contrib/ File1 =ac4096.tgz FileSize1 =26653 Required1 =modutils, A4 Tech AC4096 scanner CopyPolicy1 =GNU copyleft Keywords =scanner AC4096 Comment1 =compatible with the logi32 and m105 scanner drivers Comment2 = EnteredBy =Michael Beck End -- Michael Beck beck@informatik.hu-berlin.de 3.0 CURRENT DEVELOPMENT =================== [Again for now I'll just copy the posts I've seen. This is primarily Dr. G.W. Wettstein's work. He posted something recently about continuing development on SCSI scanners. Hope to see something concrete soon. (Sept 19, 1994)] Article: 2674 of comp.os.linux.development Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 09:25:07 CST From: Greg Wettstein Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development Subject: Re: Scaner ? I am embroiled in the middle of such a project right now. My current work is to develop an image processing/storage system for our corporate Linux network. I vended a Fujitsu scanner for this project and it is sitting at home right now, connected to my Linux box there. The Fujitsu scanner conforms to the SCSI-2 standard for scanners. I bought the technical documentation for it and it too is sitting at home. I currently have the basics of a driver for it built on top of 0.99.13. The driver currently only implements some selected ioctl's and the basic framework for read etc. It is not currently capable of really scanning a document. Finishing this is on an absolutely high priority so the next month or so should bring this to fruition. I would like to donate the driver back to the Linus for inclusion into the official kernel sources. I do not know how much appetite there is for this type of thing but rumor has it that scanners are not well supported (at least SCSI-2) in the desktop UNIX market. Perhaps Linux can be a leader there as well. I am not sure what type of interface that the HP machine uses. We considered vending one of their scanners but the technical support people were a little bit baucky about giving out interface and programming details. We chose the Fujitsu because it was one of the few that seemed to support SCSI-2. I will let everyone know when the driver is capable of doing things more intelligent that it does now. I would be interested in hearing from other's who have similar interests or projects in progress. E-mail to the address in my .sig is probably preferable to referring to the e-mail address in the newspost. This machine is only used for reading news. As always, Dr. G.W. Wettstein Oncology Research Div. Computing Facility Roger Maris Cancer Center UUCP: uunet!plains!wind!greg Fargo, ND 58122 INTERNET: greg%wind.UUCP@plains.nodak.edu Phone: 701-234-2833 ============================================ 4.0 POSSIBLE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT 4.1 Epson Scanners [ OK this is my own personal baby. I don't have time to work on it now. with the permission of the author and a hookup with me maybe someone else can pick up the ball. ] Terry Gliedt has written a scanner driver for the Epson series of scanners. While the code is specifically targeted for the 300C it'll likely work with the other models (600C and 800C). But more importantly Epson has the programming specs for the devices available. Here is the info: References: "Epson Color-Monochrome Image Scanners ES-300C Programmers Guide" (X-ES300C-P) available from Epson at 1-800-922-8911 for $7.50. I have the code. It was written for the NeXT. I'm not sure about distribution and one of the copyrights specifically states that it can't be modified without the consent of the author. However if it can be ported then we'll have another class of pretty good scanners to work with. [Update: One day I finally got around to playing with it. The code compiled with a little massaging. But of course it's looking for the underlaying driver. I still have plans to purchase a 600C and write the driver but it'll be fall at the earilest. ] 4.2 Desperate? Internetworking with DOS machines. ======================================= Another faster way of getting a scanner working is to use the scanner software in the native DOS environment and then transfer images to the Linux box. For example I have access to a BJ10 color scanner/printer that I can't even explain what I want to do to their tech folks much less get technical specs. However they do have a test program than scans in an image. It is involked from the DOS command line. So a possible scenario might be: 1) Drop the scanner and ethernet card in a second machine running DOS. 2) Get a copy of Wattcp and NFS along with a packet driver and PKTMUX. These are all freeware/shareware products available via ftp. 3) Set up the DOS box with the software so that you can mount Linux directories and so that the Linux box can telnet to the Linux box (using telnetd, a program in the Wattcp package on the DOS box.) 4) Ok. Now the linux box can send commands to the dos box using telnet. The linux box tells the dos box to do a scan. The destination for the scan file will be a file on the NFS drive. So once the scan is complete the scanned image is sitting on the Linux box ready to be processed. This can work for any scanner that has a DOS scanner command. It may be possible to write an app for windows - but I don't know Windows. [ Send me your suggestions and information. Send commentary. Send error corrections. Send anything about scanners. Later, BAJ] -- Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of... Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux! Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu ------------------------------ From: byron@gemini.cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) Subject: Re: Slip autoanswer Date: 1 Oct 1994 13:14:04 GMT In article <36jcmt$dvh@sndsu1.sinet.slb.com>, wrote: - -> How do I get my modem to autoanswer the phone when it detects a ring ?? - -At the risk of getting more abuse, I answered a similar question -the other day. My way is simply to turn on Auto Answer on the modem. -(Usually DIP switch 5) - -When I posted this the other day, I got a followup from someone saying -that was no good, because he didn't want the modem to answer the phone -when Linux was crashed. I don't understand. I have a dialup system -here in the office which I have set up as a Slip server. The modem -is set to Auto Answer, and I don't have any problems. - -Perhaps the person who replied before would care to expand his comments... I thought he was clear the first time. When the modem is set to autoanswer it will answer the phone even if the system connected to the modem is down. The alternative is to leave the modem as is and run a getty that will tell the modem to answer when the getty sees the 'RING' string that the modem sends whenever the phone rings. That way if the system (and obviously the getty) is down then the phone will just ring off the hook instead of the modem picking up the phone, negotiating the link with the other modem and then - nothing - because the machine the modem is connected to is down. It's really just a matter of taste. I prefer the system answering the phone because the modem connecting implies to me that I'm going to get a connection. With the system controlling the answer process the modems will never connect if the system is down. Clear? BAJ -- Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of... Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux! Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu ------------------------------ From: teague@dorsai.org (Tony_Teague) Subject: Modem Question .. Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 14:37:03 GMT hi, I want to set up my modem than is connected to my linux box to receive incoming calls .. Can anyone tell me how to set it up or where I can get the information from .. tony ------------------------------ From: gln@hercules.mayo.edu (Glen Niebur) Subject: Re: PPP vs SLIP? Date: 3 Oct 1994 15:15:43 GMT In <36g44i$rk@starbug.apana.org.au> mike@starbug.apana.org.au (Mike Battersby) writes: >PPP: Because you can. Because you need to send something other than > IP over the link. Because it's more convenient. Another reason for using PPP is because you CAN set an asyncmap to escape control characters. If you have to go through a terminal server on the way to your PPP server, you will want to escape some extra control characters like escape if you go through a telnet. I don't _think_ this can be done with SLIP, but if it can, i would be happy if someone would correct me (and tell me how). Glen -- Glen Niebur | A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Mayo Clinic | Painted wings and Giants rings make way for other toys. 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