On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:14:16PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Peter Crawford wrote: > > For sake of interest, does anyone know the etymology > > of dip? > Dynamic IP? DIal-uP? :)
Close, from an archived manpage at <http://www.rt.com/man/dip.8.html>: NAME dip - handle dialup IP connections I'm not sure how long ago dip disappeared from Debian, the manpage is dated 1995. Cheers, dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey "Deep Thoughts" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
