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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:09:13 -0800
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        anthony.s.magner@cpmx.saic.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: SLIP Setup...help! 
Message-ID:  <199601152009.MAA04845@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 1996 14:53:17 EST." <2469F1945C3@BlueRidge-EF.SAIC.COM> 

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>On 15 Jan 96, Tony Magner scribbled:
>
>I've since been able to get tip to work and I've set the modem, but I 
>can't exit tip.  Supposed to type ~ right?  Doesn't exit.  What do I 
>do now?

'~' is the escape character.  It must be used at the beginning of
a line and followed by at least one additional character.  I've
only used:

'.'	exit
^Z	suspend

>The modems connect but I don't get a prompt through the terminal 
>program to login to BSD.  Is this another issue where I've f*&%ed up?

Do you have a getty running on the modem's dialin port?  Look in
/etc/ttys.

>   -- Tony Magner
>   -- anthony.s.magner@cpmx.saic.com

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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