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Re: mail download

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
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Rob Hutchinson (rob@lash001.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> I've sorted out connecting, detecting and supplying the usename, password
> and protocol, but then I seem to receive nonsense.  Well, obviously not
> nonsense, its just that I don't know how to interpret the next sequence. 
> Is this documented anywhere that an idiot like myself could find, or will I
> have to guess?

On ftp.demon.co.uk in the directory /pub/doc/rfc you will find
hundereds of documents setting the standards for how the Internet
'works'.

PPP and SLIP (the protocol options) are documented there. For
example PPP is in RFC1661 (as I recall). There is an index in the
directory.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir                                Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                     322 Regents Park Road
England                                        London N3 2QQ
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From: malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir)
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Date: 1998/02/25
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