From:	"AndrewJ" <luminous-is AT home DOT com>
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Subject:	[Off-topic] Re: Hyperterminal and Netscape Navigator
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>      Is there a program running under plain DOS which is equivalent to
> Windows' Hyperterminal.
>      Is there a program running under plain DOS which will dial up
> the user's Internet provider and launch Netscape Navigator?

What has this to do with programming with DJGPP?

As for a DOS version of HyperTerminal (heh..., yeah, I know what came first),
there are a plethora of old communications programs out there (Telix, Terminat,
ProComm to name a few).  These old DOS programs are generally more robust and
useful than HyperTerminal, which was/is near useless IMHO.

As for the second question, NO.  Unless you are talking about a Windows NT
console executable that does what the dial-up manager does without all the
gooey goodness of Windows.  Windows uses a different communication method when
dialing to modern ISP's (PPP, point to point protocol) that an old DOS terminal
program would know nothing about, and couldn't signal to Windows that a
connection had been established anyways.

AndrewJ

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