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To: Phillip Musumeci <phillip@pm.cse.rmit.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Entering ifconfig parameters for PLIP installation was confusing to me 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:23:43 +1100."
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:53:14 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> This may or may not make sense: could the networking menus have an extra
> box where you can enter the remote host's IP address if you are using
> point-to-point network links such as PLIP (and perhaps PPP too).  It would

That's in the extra flags field and is actually documented when you
hit F1, except that this doc seems to be broken at the moment for reasons
which currently escape me. :-)

				Jordan