You could also have used the "copy in" function of the installer's mini
shell.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Roger Fischer wrote:

> At 5:28 PM -0800 3/27/00, Bradley R. Smith wrote:
> >The latest version of StuffIt Expander (www.aladdinsys.com) can unpack
> >.tgz files.
> >If SimpleText can't handle the text files than BBEdit Lite can
> >(www.barebones.com). They are both free downloads.
> >
> >On 3/26/2000 at 21:40, jwinter@ticnet.com (Jim Watson) wrote:
> >
> >> I want to configure ppp on my mac se/30..  I have downloaded 2
> >> documents: ppp.setup.tgz & ppp-dod.tgz to my imac that are going to tell
> >> me how to plug & play with ppp on unix.  Is there any way I can get
> >> these  doc on my unix machine since I don't have ftp running. Better yes
> >> is there a text or HTML version of thes instructions...
> >>
> >> jim watson
> 
> And then... What I did to avoid all the typing.
> 
> I decompressed the files on my MacOS machine.
> Then, with a terminal program (zterm?) I connected my MacOS box
> to my NetBSD box, and logged in over the serial port.
> 
> Logged in.
> Started vi
> pressed i to get into insert mode
> 
> Then I opened the files on Mac OS using bbedit,
> selected all,
> then went to zterm and pasted the file into vi.
> 
> Now, I'm sure I could have used xmodem or zmodem or something
> to transfer them via the terminal session, but at the time I was
> first setting this up on my box, I wasn't familiar with all of the
> tools available to me.  Of course, I only had to do this once,
> because once ppp was setup, I just ftp everythig.
> 
> Good luck,
> rog
> 
> 
> 

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