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Re: man missing ?



In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time,
d.wright@open.ac.uk writes:

> PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the
>  internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a
>  laptop. I use the ZIP drive support to save pumping floppies, but
>  I only started doing this after it became necessary because I had
>  to install linux on a machine with an LS120 drive (which can only
>  read a floppy through the BIOS).
>  I'm not sure where you got printer support from - the lpr package
>  is not in the list, viz.
>  

I may be wrong about this, but don't you also need netbase to get to the net
using PPP?  That wasn't installed...   and as for the printer support, you're
right, lpr isn't installed, but the port drivers are...  


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