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Date:      Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:04:06 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        Patrick Morris <patrick@expresshost.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help - Ethernet AND Modem
Message-ID:  <19990207100405.M79703@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 11:10:01AM %2B0000
References:  <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206011314.00927290@expresshost.com> <19990206173504.I79703@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.19990206023156.0090d5c0@expresshost.com> <19990206181403.K79703@freebie.lemis.com> <36BC2309.6E7175A3@uk.radan.com>

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On Saturday,  6 February 1999 at 11:10:01 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> OK.  I said at the very beginning I wasn't sure what you mean by kppp.
>> Now we have kppp, KPPP, ~*KPPP*~ and Kppp.  You need to explain what
>> you are doing.
>
> PMJI Greg, but "kppp" is KDE's GUI front end dialler (kind of like M$
> Dial Up Networking thing) that uses the kernel pppd rather than Brian's
> user ppp. It's just confusing that the names for everything in KDE start
> with "k", which in this case make it look like an abbreviation for
> "kernel ppp".

Thanks.  Yes, it would have been of help had Patrick said that the
first time round.

I don't understand why anybody would want to use kppp.  It looks like
a lot of work for nothing.  The UNIX way is to set things up so that
they run automatically.

> BTW, liked the joke about the drunk, never heard it before, must be an
> Aussie joke I guess ;-)

No, it's from Weizenbaum.  As I said, there's no reason for it to be a
drunk.  I also heard the story told in a Yiddish context about a girl
coming home from the synagogue.

Greg
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