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@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ What is new in ppp-2.2. * More systems are now supported: - AIX 4, thanks to Charlie Wick (cwick@quaver.urbana.mcd.mot.com) - OSF/1 on DEC Alpha, thanks to Steve Tate (srt@zaphod.csci.unt.edu) + AIX 4, thanks to Charlie Wick, + OSF/1 on DEC Alpha, thanks to Steve Tate (srt@zaphod.csci.unt.edu), NextStep 3.2 and 3.3, thanks to Philip-Andrew Prindeville - (philipp@res.enst.fr) and Steve Perkins (perkins@cps.msu.edu) - Solaris 2 + (philipp@res.enst.fr) and Steve Perkins (perkins@cps.msu.edu), + Solaris 2, in addition to NetBSD 1.0, SunOS 4.x, Ultrix 4.x, FreeBSD 2.0, and Linux. @@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ or pppstats should be reported to: AUSTRALIA Bugs in other ports should be reported to the maintainer for that port -(see the appropriate README.* file) or to the above. +(see the appropriate README.* file) or to the above. Unfortunately, +Charlie Wick is not in a position to provide support for the AIX 4 +port, so if you find bugs in it, send them to me. Thanks to: diff --git a/README.aix4 b/README.aix4 index 956c8c6..b01bfc9 100644 --- a/README.aix4 +++ b/README.aix4 @@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ AIX 4.1 support is ported from the SunOS code for ppp 2.2. It requires a streams-based tty and will not work on AIX 3.2. This is the first release of this package for AIX. It is provided free and without warranty -of any kind. I can't make any promise to support this, but if you e-mail -me with problems I'll try to help you. Please let me know about any bugs -you might find. +of any kind. Introduction @@ -96,5 +94,4 @@ Examples man page for pppd describes all the options in detail. Charlie Wick - cwick@prairienet.org diff --git a/README.linux b/README.linux index 7d0e77e..f21a244 100644 --- a/README.linux +++ b/README.linux @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Al Longyear longyear@netcom.com INTRODUCTION -This file is a substantially derrived from the previous version for +This file is substantially derived from the previous version for the pppd process 2.1.2. Michael Callahan wrote that version. This particular version was written, modified, hacked, changed, whatever, by Al Longyear. If you find errors in this document, they are probably @@ -115,9 +115,7 @@ CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION actions. - Support is added for compression control protocol. At the present time - only the BSD compression protocol is supported. (Also, as of this time, - the ietf-ppp working group has only specified the BSD compression - protocol.) + only the BSD-Compress compression protocol is supported. - There are two queues for output frames. This avoids some problems which occured with the previous version and some PPP packages which exchanged @@ -239,10 +237,16 @@ kernel driver installation: pppd installation: + First update /usr/include/net as described in the previous section. + + Then, in this directory, issue the command: + + ./configure + Go to the 'pppd' directory and issue the commands: - make -f Makefile.linux depend - make -f Makefile.linux + make depend + make This should build the program. If you have any errors then ensure that you have the proper include files and haven't missed one. @@ -250,7 +254,7 @@ pppd installation: If you are using shadow passwords *AND* have it installed, then you should use the command: - make -f Makefile.linux shadow + make shadow rather than the non-shadow command listed earlier. @@ -264,7 +268,7 @@ pppd installation: To install the package, issue the command: - make -f Makefile.linux install + make install This will install the binary in /usr/sbin and the man page into /usr/man/man8. @@ -294,28 +298,32 @@ pppd installation: chat installation: + If you have not already done so, run `./configure' in this directory. + To compile the chat program, go to the 'chat' directory and issue the command: - make -f Makefile.linux + make To install the package, issue the command: - make -f Makefile.linux install + make install This will install the binary in /usr/sbin and the man page into /usr/man/man8. pppstats installation: + If you have not already done so, run `./configure' in this directory. + To compile the pppstats program, go to the 'pppstats' directory and issue the command: - make -f Makefile.linux + make To install the package, issue the command: - make -f Makefile.linux install + make install This will install the binary in /usr/sbin and the man page into /usr/man/man8. |