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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
CA>> version is "find -name"). It worked better for me. 

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

ROTFLAMO! 

The "find" I am referring to is the *nix find, not the DOS
find. I have dosnix workalikes and one of them is a *nix find
(actually called ufind for DOS). I also have "ls", "diff",
"AWK", and other dosnix binaries I've been using for many years. 

The "find" for BL is the busybox version and won't do all that
a real *nix "find" can do but it works. 

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. 

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

I did some reading about PPP for standard Unix setups first to
get some idea just what was supposed to be there. EZNET was a
mistake IMO but Steven D. has no PPP connect and had no idea it
was going to be a problem for others? 

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

WC> There are prompts for the common usages at the bottom of
WC> the editors screen in BL 1.7 anyway. CNTRL-X exits with a
WC> prompt to save "Y" - "N", than it prompts to filename with
WC> the original as default. 

Must be the other editor then. There are two or three of them
in the BL install. 

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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
CA>> everything was modular and smaller. :-) 

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

That is the beauty of what Steven has done. His BasicLinux can
give legacy hardware users new options to do more than they
have been able to do. It's a good thing for everyone. 

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