Re: What he heck is FIFO?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Greg Madden wrote:
> > the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked
> > for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome.
> 
> You might want to try wvdial or pppconfig. These two do all the configuring 
> for you.

$ apt-cache search ppp config
gkdial - Gtk-based PPP dial-up configuration tool.
gkdial-gnome - GNOME-based PPP dial-up configuration tool.
pppconfig - A text menu based utility for configuring ppp
quickppp - PPP configuration tool
wvdial - PPP dialer with built-in intelligence.
(among others)

BTW, install dictd, dict, and dict-vera. Then you can:
$ dict FIFO
which answers with:
>From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms June 2002 [vera]:

  FIFO
            First In First Out (CPU)
	    
It won't help you dial your ISP, but now you know what the heck is a FIFO :P

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  Henrique Holschuh