help w/ modem

[Robyn]

> I would also recommend seeing if you can get minicom to connect and do
> things like use your shell account for pine so you know, before you waste
> a lot of time trying to get pppd to work, that your modem will in fact
> work.  Once you confirm that it will it's only a matter of getting all the
> right entries in the right files an calling your scripts correctly, but
> I've seen lots of people with a non-compatible who spend hours and hours
> pulling their hair out before they realize that they just need a new
> modem.

Thanks for the info, and the consolation (I needed that!).  I have one other
question (just to point out how new I am, heh) -- how do you get to minicom?
I keep seeing references to it, but I don't know how to start it.  On the
terminal, what directory is it in?

Robyn
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