Bizarre as it seems at first, this is very useful in some cases. Some SLIP servers will not allow you to use your own IP address on the SLIP link, but will rather assign you one from a pool of addresses whenever you dial in, printing some message that informs you about the address you have been assigned. This is the command used to echo text to the console from which dip was started. Any of dip 's variables may be used in print commands. Using port ttyS3 at speed 38400 7.4.2.5.
Variable names dip understands only a predefined set of variables.
A variable name always begins with a dollar symbol and must be written in lowercase letters. These five variables are the only ones that may be assigned values directly using the get command. An error level of 0 indicates success, while a nonzero value denotes an error. The if command is a conditional branch, rather than a full-featured programming if statement. The goto command makes the execution of the script continue at the line following that bearing the label .