Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:27:28 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems. Message-ID: <19970616082728.UM59261@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199706160538.BAA16814@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Jun 16, 1997 01:38:10 -0400 References: <199706160016.UAA15226@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <199706160538.BAA16814@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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As Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
> If that were the case, then JRL couldn't use Win95 for PPP
> connections, and that is very common. In my experience, something
> like "--in:--in:-${NAME}^M-word:-${PASSWD}^M" works perfectly fine
> with most ISPs.
Unless these ISPs would start to use M$ crap... maybe even SINIX (Unix
variant by Siemens-Nixdorf). The script had to look like:
--name:--name:-${NAME}^M-wort:-${PASSWD}^M
there. "Benutzername:", "Kennwort:", in case you wonder. -- Yeah,
Mickeysoft is so fond of things like this. They even got their
mailers to use AW: (Antwort) instead of the de-facto standard RE: in
their german versions, which leads to "Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: original
subject" crap...
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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