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to: Tom Walker
from: Jasen Betts
date: 2004-01-28 21:08:52
subject: It`s Alive!! It`s Alive!

Hi Tom.

26-Jan-04 08:12:04, Tom Walker wrote to Jasen Betts


  ->  TW> worked great. Rebotted and guess what. I could find NO place
  to ->  TW> make it dial in when I called up the Browser. Even the
  buttons to ->  TW> call up the Mandrake Web sites wouldn't do it.

 TW> -> you need to install diald or similar for that.

 TW> I undrstand that. What I am questioning is WHY is the Dialer NOT
 TW> installed when Linux is put o nthe Hard Dreive. That seems like a
 TW> very essentual item. And what makes it MORe puzziling is that a
 TW> TON of Junk IS installed during the Prociedure. BUt to Leacve out
 TW> the Dialer??? That jsut dosne't make any sense. I am of course
 TW> talking about the "Auto Install for Dummies"!!  :-)

I thionk the dialer is installed the dialier is the PPP software and a
scripting tool like chat...

diald is the bit that runs the dialer automatically.

 -=> Bye <=-

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