hey,
ive got a quetion for any one who can answer, im running mac os x and when you're at the login screen and type in ">console" as the user name it launches a complete command line enviroment once in that enviroment are there any text based utilities that i could use to connect to my isp?

check out...

http://lynx.browser.org/

lynx is a text based web browser

Thanks for the help but what i meant is there any sort of text based dialup utility that i could use in a completely command line enviroment to connect with my isp

Do you mean a command line dial-up script to connect via a modem? Many people use chat ... From the man page:

i dont know if im doing this wrong but when i enter the command pppd the terminal tells me -
pppd: Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: No such file or directory
Can't open options file /etc/ppp/options: No such file or directory
i read the manual well most of it anyways and im still not sure how to dial up through the cli.

Learning PPPD is good, but CHAT is also a part of the process for most folks... pppd and chat..... chat manages the dialup modem script and pppd manages the negotiation of Internet 'stuff'..... sounds like you are on the right track.

Well, MacOSX is based on BSD after all, so probably one of the best places to find docs would be on the freebsd site. Check out here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...imer/c308.html
You'll most likely have to change some things, and maybe move them around (if OSX looks in different directories), but the basics should be there.

Also see http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html for some other info... You won't need the majority of whats in that HOWTO, but it's yet another reference point.