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On Fri, 3 May 1996, Andrew wrote:

> This depends on how your IP addresses are allocated...are you saying:
>  
> 1) your box has an IP number and knows what it is - but you (the user) 
> dosn't know it.
> 
> 	or
> 
> 2) your box has an IP number but it (the machine) and you (the user) 
> dosn't know what it is?
number 2 is what i mean: it probably has an IP somewhere but i dunno and 
i can't find out using DOS software because there ain't no networking 
software installed. i dunno who's the sysad for this LAN and i don't 
wanna find out, this is not exactly an official project i'm doing...

XXX
Ivan