Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/02/16/08:46:53
DOS command-line program for SMTP, POP3 and NNTP is UKA_PPP. Current version is
1.7x2, aka NOS-BOX 2.05. URL is
http://mvmpc200.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/~mvmpc9/index.htm
This is a 16-bit program or suite of programs. There is also a Win32 front end
UKAW which I never tried. "Official" way is to run from the menu, which
includes a dialer. Dialer does not work on my new computer. Actually the
dialer might work, but EPPPD or EPPPDD fails to make the IP connection. Only
DOS-based PPP program I have got to work on new computer is LSPPP
http://members.tripod.com/~ladsoft/lsppp/
There are also some 32-bit DOS Internet applications in WATT-32
http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/
From my earlier post >> and Eli Zaretskii > :
>> I wouldn't see any advantage trying to invoke this
>> program from within Emacs
>The advantage is that you use the same editor for writing the message,
>quoting the messages you reply to, spell-check the message with Emacs
>built-in support for Ispell, and have access to all the other powerful
>Emacs features related to email, like full control of the message headers,
>for example.
You can still prepare the outgoing messages in Emacs and exit to get to the
mail/news program. Author of UKA_PPP anticipated Yarn or Crosspoint as
mail/news readers, was presumably not thinking of Emacs.
It appears the mouse works much better in DOS Emacs than in Linux non-X, though
I think Emacs in Linux/Unix would work much better in X than non-X.
>> I tried w3 just to see if it would work when connected to the Internet. I was
>> prompted for the URL, but I got the error message that w3 was missing.
>Right, that's because w3 isn't part of the standard distribution. But it
>doesn't work in the DJGPP port anyway (no built-in network support,
>remember?), so don't run out looking for it on the net.
If I run out looking for w3 on the net, it will be for Linux and/or NetBSD, not
DOS. File browse-url.el and browse-url-w3.el both truncate to BROWSE-U.EL where
long file names are not supported; one would kill the other. Not really a
barrier, since browse-url-w3.el could be renamed.
>Not every triangle you see means that there's an ASCII-127 character in
>the buffer. "C-u C-x =" is one way of telling. Emacs uses ASCII-127 for
>both the display and conversion of unsupported characters. When only the
>display is unsupported, the character in the file is not modified, but
>just remapped for display purposes.
But you say Emacs 21.x would not convert to ASCII-127 and save that way? A
file might have parts in Latin-1 and other parts not in Latin-1.
>> Printer drivers would be another issue. My printer has no support for Korean,
>> Japanese or Chinese but could print a graphic file.
>Use the ps-print-buffer command, it outputs a PostScript file that
>handles all the fonts you can find on SimTel.NET. If your printer
>doesn't support PostScript, install the Ghostscript package, which
>will convert PostScript into PCL commands, and supports almost any
>printer out there. The manual explains how to set up printing with
>Ghostscript.
I once had a Ghostscript for DOS but couldn't figure how to make anything work,
think I must have been missing some parts. I think Ghostscript or Ghostview
can print or view PDF files, and the DOS version is falling behind compared to
OS/2 and Unix-style OSes. Theoretically I might be able to print Korean,
Japanese or Chinese but would have no way of knowing if it came out correct. I
might have a better chance with the Linux version, installed with Slackware.
Printer is Panasonic KX-P1124, which is 24-pin dot matrix.
>> I prepared this message using DOS Emacs, hope the formatting will look neater
>> than it does on the Emacs screen.
>What's wrong with how it looks on your screen?
>Perhaps you should put the following line in your _emacs file:
>(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
>This will cause Emacs to automatically wrap lines in all text-related
>modes (that includes mail-mode, the mode used for composing mail
>messages).
Emacs screen shows backslashes in the rightmost column when the line is 80
characters long, or longer. I think there is word wrap somewhere in the menus?
I guess mail-mode would also be used for news messages?
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