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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:12:17 +0000
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        larry_nilsen <larry_nilsen@eee.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: working in interactive mode
Message-ID:  <19981229231217.C17162@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <368934FF.67016E29@eee.org>
References:  <368934FF.67016E29@eee.org>

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larry_nilsen wrote:

> 1) i need to Know what to do to get my keyboard to respond when im
> in term mode in ppp> you say im suppose to type at and then i should
> get a OK prompt back? there one problem. when i type term then it
> says working in interactive mode which is Great then i see a little
> rectangle box on the bottom left?

Yes, so type "AT" there.

> Question is how am i suppose to type "at" when the only thing my
> keyboard will respond to is ~.

How do you know it isn't responding? It may not echo, but if after
typing

term <enter>
AT <enter>

you don't see "OK", something is wrong with your setup.

> is there somthing Im missing. To be able to type "at" and get an OK
> back? right now all i see is that rectangle black box and no prompt to
> type at.

You don't need a prompt to be able to type something.

-- 
Ben Smithurst
ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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