Mail Archives: opendos/1997/12/28/19:52:49
On 27 Dec 97 at 21:40, in the matter of Questions...,
Mark Tucker wrote:
> I'm tinkering with Opendos now and I've got a few questions:
>
> 1. Is there any software available (preferably freeware) that will
> allow me to connect to my ISP and retrieve my e-mail for off-line
> reading/composing?
Mark,
I have used Minuet (a dialer- TCP/IP stack) and Pegasus for DOS
under an older installation of bread-n-butter MSDOS6.22. It worked
fine. I won't say I could surf the Web at a breakneck speed, however
<G>. But it ran on a 386 with 2MB RAM.
My new installation of OpenDOS will not be used for connecting to the
Net, at least not to get email, so I cannot directly speak to that
question. However their is no reason that I am aware of why Minuet +
Pegasus would not work (better, even) under OpenDOS as well as
MSDOS6.22.
As for shareware archives, there has always been tons of free and
modestly priced stuff for DOS. I am not an old-guard computer
enthusiast but it is my understanding that SimTel was always one big
place for that, and also oak.oakland.edu. Most of those public
University-hosted archives are gone now, however; SimTel will still
work but now its run as a public service by cdrom.com (Walnut Creek
CD-ROM).
It may take a little longer to find stuff for DOS but i am confident
in saying 'its out there.' Much of it may have been last updated or
developed quite a while ago, however.
soren andersen
Soren's Easy Chair | orchids photo pages
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/sorentin/
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