delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: opendos/2001/04/26/00:40:10

Message-ID: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A402204A@emwatent02.meters.com.au>
From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: internet access for dr dos
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:39:53 +1000
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0)
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

No, it's not graffical ... it's graphical (or course)!

Last time I checked it was at :
http://www.ibm.co.jp/software/internet/webboy/
(if not, just search for "webboy" at the site).
Hint : Use the AltaVista/Systran/Babelfish facility
to translate the web site to English.

I don't know if Version 4 is available in English, although
once installed, a user can probably "get by" just using
the icons. Version 4 features Javascript and printer
support. Version 3 is available somewhere (not from
IBM, but from a licensee) in English and Portuguese
(and Polish, I think) ...

Note that WebBoy is not available for free, and the demo
versions are crippleware - they don't give you online access
and they only run for 15 minutes at a time. AFAIK, however,
WebBoy V4 is the most advanced web browser for DOS
so far (Arachne is still being developed, so this too should
have Javascript support someday, hopefully soon).

BTW, you should not "cc" the originator of a list
message (eg. myself), otherwise they get two
copies of your message (which is a bit silly).

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark at Cross+Road's [SMTP:mark1 AT mich DOT com]
> Sent:	Thursday, 26 April 2001 3:47
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Cc:	Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com
> Subject:	Re: internet access for dr dos
> 
> 
> Hello Joe,
>     Where do you find info for IBM Web Boy?  Is it graffical in nature?
>       Thanks,
>         Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On 2001-04-26 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
>    >Don't know about credit card stuff, but the obvious choice for a
>    >web and e-mail package for DOS is Arachne (www.arachne.cz).
>    >If you are willing to throw money around, IBM Japan also has
>    >WebBoy 4 available (and WebBoy 3 is still available from some
>    >other mob, whose name escapes me) ...
>    >Joe.
>    >> -----Original Message-----
>    >> Sent: Thursday, 26 April 2001 6:51
>    >> Sorry to be a pest, are there any sites or applications that can
>    >>handhold  my
>    >> company and me through getting dos machines onto the internet for
>    >>browsing  and e mail. my brother in new york is a minister, and
>    >>needs access via  older
>    >> machines. many churches could use same. i have older equipment to
>    >>donate,  but feel guilty if internet access is not made simple and
>    >>useable and  secure
>    >> for credit card use.
>    >> Would anybody sell me their consulting time for this project,
>    >>again with  some handholding or a couple "tech support" calls
>    >>thrown in. maybe others  would line up. i have pentium one and
>    >>pentium two machines, 32 or 64 ram  generally.
>    >> Lastly, i am willing to pay some for handholding to netrwork dos
>    >>7.02 or  7.03  across tcp/ip or a simple server based novell
>    >>network. i am quite  familiar with peer to peer capabilities of dr
>    >>dos, thogh my wish list  includes printing to a little hp print
>    >>server box, though allowing  printing
>    >> to a printer not physically attached to a dr dos box with server.
>    >>exe  running.
>    >> I am still interested in internal modem ideas but remain grateful
>    >>for  ideas
>    >> to date.
>    >> -rich w

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019