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diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
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--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.0
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.16 1995/12/18 03:48:04 paulus Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.17 1996/01/18 04:01:15 paulus Exp $
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ Alternatively, a value of 0 for \fInr\fR or \fInt\fR disables
 compression in the corresponding direction.
 .TP
 .B \-bsdcomp
-Disables compression; \fBpppd\fR will not request or agree to compress
-packets using the BSD-Compress scheme.
+Disables BSD-Compress compression; \fBpppd\fR will not request or
+agree to compress packets using the BSD-Compress scheme.
 .TP
 .B +chap
 Require the peer to authenticate itself using CHAP [Cryptographic
@@ -236,6 +236,33 @@ Disable the \fBdefaultroute\fR option.  The system administrator who
 wishes to prevent users from creating default routes with \fIpppd\fR
 can do so by placing this option in the /etc/ppp/options file.
 .TP
+.B deflate \fInr,nt
+Request that the peer compress packets that it sends, using the
+Deflate scheme, with a maximum window size of \fI2**nr\fR bits, and
+agree to compress packets sent to the peer with a maximum window size of
+\fI2**nt\fR bits.  If \fInt\fR is not specified, it defaults to the value
+given for \fInr\fR.  Values in the range 8 to 15 may be used for
+\fInr\fR and \fInt\fR; larger values give better compression but
+consume more kernel memory for compression dictionaries.
+Alternatively, a value of 0 for \fInr\fR or \fInt\fR disables
+compression in the corresponding direction.  (Note: \fBpppd\fR
+requests Deflate compression in preference to BSD-Compress
+if the peer can do either.)
+.TP
+.B \-deflate
+Disables Deflate compression; \fBpppd\fR will not request or agree to
+compress packets using the Deflate scheme.
+.TP
+.B demand
+Initiate the link only on demand, i.e. when data traffic is present.
+With this option, the remote IP address must be specific by the user
+on the command line or in an options file.  \fBpppd\fR will initially
+configure the interface and enable it for IP traffic without
+connecting to the peer.  When traffic is available, \fBpppd\fR will
+connect to the peer and perform negotiation, authentication, etc.
+When this is completed, \fBpppd\fR will commence passing data packets
+(i.e., IP packets) across the link.  The persist, idle and holdoff
+options are often useful in conjuction with this option.
 .B -detach
 Don't fork to become a background process (otherwise
 .I pppd
@@ -259,6 +286,16 @@ purposes.  For example, if gethostname() returns the name porsche, but the
 fully qualified domain name is porsche.Quotron.COM, you would use the
 domain option to set the domain name to Quotron.COM.
 .TP
+.B holdoff \fI<n>
+Specifies how many seconds to wait before re-initiating the link after
+it terminates.  This option only has effect if the persist option is
+used.
+.TP
+.B idle \fI<n>
+Specifies that \fBpppd\fR should disconnect if it is idle for
+\fI<n>\fR seconds.  The link is idle when no data packets (i.e. IP
+packets) are being sent or received.
+.TP
 .B -ip
 Disable IPCP negotiation and IP communication.  This option should
 only be required if the peer is buggy and gets confused by requests
@@ -862,38 +899,41 @@ User default options, read before command-line options.
 .TP
 .B /etc/ppp/options.\fIttyname
 System default options for the serial port being used, read after
-command-line options.
+command-line options.  In forming the \fIttyname\fR part of this
+filename, an initial /dev/ is stripped from the port name (if
+present), and any slashes in the remaining part are converted to
+dots.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .TP
 .B RFC1144
 Jacobson, V.
 .I Compressing TCP/IP headers for low-speed serial links.
-1990 February.
+February 1990.
 .TP
 .B RFC1321
 Rivest, R.
 .I The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.
-1992 April.
+April 1992.
 .TP
 .B RFC1332
 McGregor, G.
 .I PPP Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP).
-1992 May.
+May 1992.
 .TP
 .B RFC1334
 Lloyd, B.; Simpson, W.A.
 .I PPP authentication protocols.
-1992 October.
+October 1992.
 .TP
-.B RFC1548
+.B RFC1661
 Simpson, W.A.
 .I The Point\-to\-Point Protocol (PPP).
-1993 December.
+July 1994.
 .TP
-.B RFC1549
+.B RFC1662
 Simpson, W.A.
-.I PPP in HDLC Framing.
-1993 December
+.I PPP in HDLC-like Framing.
+July 1994.
 .SH NOTES
 The following signals have the specified effect when sent to the
 .I pppd
@@ -920,9 +960,10 @@ decompression errors generally indicate a bug in one or other
 implementation.
 
 .SH AUTHORS
+Paul Mackerras (paulus@cs.anu.edu.au), based on earlier work by
 Drew Perkins,
 Brad Clements,
 Karl Fox,
 Greg Christy,
-Brad Parker,
-Paul Mackerras (paulus@cs.anu.edu.au).
+and
+Brad Parker.