-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 CA> 1237a05dc595
 CA> tech



 CA> Hello Wayne -

 WC> Well not yet having a handle on Linux recursive searches
 WC> with ls or grep as yet it took me some 30 minutes to find
 WC> the script file pppsetup in /usr/sbin and cp'ed it into
 WC> /tmp to look into the called configeration files which I
 WC> imagine I'll edit so ppp-on doesn't bomb or require a disk.

 CA> Try using 'find'. I forgot the exact syntax (my DOS version is
 CA> "find -name"). It worked better for me.

I shall but only after I find what BL's find is the alias for
just as I found "edit" in 1.7 is the alias for pico -w
I'm into this to learn Slackware Linux and not DOS!

 WC> BTW I _did_ find just invoking and exiting pppsetup does
 WC> indeed cause ppp-on to operate as desired with no need to
 WC> open the file just as I'd suspected.

 CA> I changed mine but that sounds familiar.

Hey I just found _looked_ at the script yesterday and I'm proceeding 
carefully so I don't clutter everything up.
I'll hack it at some point and automate it to load on opening
Linux

 WC> Saw some interesting stuff in that script, understood about
 WC> half of it or a bit more right off. Now using pico -w
 WC> instead of the alias thinking it best to get a grip on the
 WC> real syntax before moving on.

 CA> I used pico but if I remember correctly the syntax for a
 CA> file-save was a bit weird?

There are prompts for the common usages at the bottom of
the editors screen in BL 1.7 anyway.
CNTRL-X exits with a prompt to save "Y" - "N", than it
prompts to filename with the original as default.
 
 WC> partition and I can telnet, edit, write and edit files,
 WC> receive e-mail, browse and open JPG's off the local weather
 WC> radar page already!!!

 CA> It is interesting how little space is required for text command
 CA> line mode.

 I'm trying to learn a bit of both as I want to master
 command line on a minimal install as well as an adaquately featured
 GUI minimalist install.                          

 WC> This is getting awfully addictive and I DO still have all
 WC> my *nix books from that short lived programming school
 WC> effort :-)

 CA> It is interesting. Reminds me of 'the old days' when everything
 CA> was modular and smaller. :-)

Yes and I am really getting into this working down
to a minimalist system which maximizes performance
on less than bleeding edge equipment.
 
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