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Re: dialing modem as normal user



On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:14:16PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Peter Crawford wrote:
> > For sake of interest, does anyone know the etymology 
> > of dip?
> Dynamic IP? DIal-uP? :)

Close, from an archived manpage at <http://www.rt.com/man/dip.8.html>:

NAME
       dip - handle dialup IP connections

I'm not sure how long ago dip disappeared from Debian, the manpage is
dated 1995.       

Cheers,

dt

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