Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:36:58 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, lindsay evenson <travis@interlog.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial up Message-ID: <199804170036.BAA03663@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:12:33 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416161150.7393M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > > It may be of interest... with the MP branch, we can now ^Z then ``bg'' > > ppp :-) The -current & -stable branches of ppp now warn that you're > > suspending ppp operations when you ``shell'', but the 2.2.2 version > > did not :-( > > Actually, I've done that with versions all the way back to 2.1.x days. It > depends on my mood though -- I'll leave it running in an xterm if I'm in > X, or else I'll reclaim my console. :) The ability to `fg' was broken though, and the whole mechanism was a bit crufty.... It's now a bit cleaner. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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