Mail Archives: opendos/1998/05/07/06:00:50
At 01:06 PM 5/1/98 -0500, Rob McGee wrote:
>Hi, I am new to this list and to Caldera OpenDOS/DR DOS. I happened to have
a spare primary partition on my first hard drive so I thought I'd give it a try.
>
>My first question is, how do I go about setting up a dial-up Internet
connection? Is there something like a WinSock (DOSSock?) I need to obtain?
What about a dialer; can a PPP connection be started with regular
communications software, or is an integrated dialer needed? While I am
fairly proficient in MS-DOS, I have to admit that all my Internet time has
been done in Windows.
>
Klos Technoliges makes a dos PPP stack with a built in dialer. It comes with
Kali and Kahn which are used to play network games over the internet. I cant
remember klos's web site but www.klos.com could be a good start. I havent
found much internet software for dos, I have a telnet client that works and
I just then use the programs that are on my shell account for everything
else. Caldera makes the Webspider but I never could get it to work, and
there is DOS-Lynx it works ok. You might want to try the New Deal suite it
comes with a ppp stack and graphical web browser that works but is a far cry
from Netscape and lacks frames support.
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