This is the last version of DIP using the "/etc/diphosts" file.
It has been updated to use the "databits" serial patches, the
"speed" setting bugfix, Jim Seagrave's "echo" and "init" adds,
and Paul Mossip's "dynamic address" patches, as sent to me by
Jeff Uphoff.  Here is his README:

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For those of us that have our SLIP IP addresses assigned dynamically,
here is a patch for dip that will trap the address when the remote
host 'displays' it.  (This is an option--those that don't want this
need not enable it.)

The meat of this patch was written by Paul Mossip (mossip@vizlab.rutgers.edu)
Someone mentioned the existance of his patch, so I emailed him requesting
a copy and he anonymously ftp'd it into my linux box.  

I have been using it heavily for several days now, and it works
beautifully.  Bravo to the author!  (And many thanks)

I extended his patch a slight bit; whenever I initiated a slip connection,
dip executed a 'route' command that assigned the remote machine's IP
address as both my Destination net/address and my Gateway address.
My connection would not function unless I deleted that route and created
a new one specifying my Destination net/address as 'default'.
I have added 'default' to the set of commands that dip accepts--
if you use it, your Destination net/address will be set to 'default',
if you don't use it, dip sets up the route as it did before.  (This
command, like the ones that Paul added, can either be entered in
dip's command mode, or read in from a script file.)

The abilites that Paul's patch added to dip allowed me to totally
automate my SLIP connections, with the exception of the routing change.
This patch has taken the last step; everything is done from a script
file and I haven't had a problem with the address assignment trapping once.

Those that have to deal with dynamically assigned IP address will
find this very useful.

Thanks once again to Paul Mossip--he put all of the real work into
this patch.
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The next release of DIP will use a much more powerful scripting
language (derived from the Minicom communications package), and
it will use the "/etc/diptab" "termcap"-like database for its
client hosts.  This will allow for a much more flexible setup
of hosts, and it will allow me to implement a Dynamic Address
Server for DIP, making it usable as a "real" SLIP/PPP dialin
server.

Fred, 07/20/93
