Thanks Edgar.
I was tired of taking up the majority of the bandwidth on this list so I worked
with Lawson thru personal em's and finally got it working early am yesterday.
I'm able to sign on now.
Thanks a lot though for the help though.
Edgar Alwers wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Why do you not start trying to connect to the nearest mail box ( numbers
> are published in nearly all magazins ) or to any phonenumber through
> minicom ? you shall see pretty soon if modem and minicom are working.
> I am wondering, if you shouldnt also start using "ping" to test your
> connection. If you manage to get the ip number of your provider, you could
> open a bash window and first type "ping 127.0.0.1" This checks your local
> host. After that, "ping ip-number of your provider" should let you test
> modem and connection. But OK, I am not sure if this is a little premature.
> Edgar Alwers
>
> At 17:13 21.12.99 -0700, you wrote:
> >How do I know if minicom is working correctly. This may be a stupid question.
>
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