Mail Archives: opendos/2002/11/01/15:17:09
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Gary Welles wrote:
> [snip]
> Before reviving a dead mouse, you might consider if you are first
> desperate enough to do what it takes to get one of these browsers
> working.
Well, yes, you might say I am desperate enough to get a browser
working under MS-DOS. My large Win98 box is entirely out of service,
and it might be a month before I get it fixed, even if it is fixable
(I'm not sure at this point). On this oooold machine I can dial into
my ISP's Linux shell account to read mail and netnews, but I do need
at least a basic www browser.
> From a 386/DX with a "PS/2-Style" mouse port and DOS, I've gotten
> NCSA X-Mosiac, Opera, Netscape and DR-WebSpyder, up and running
> all with varying degrees of pain. I've just tried to get Arachne
> working and it all came back to me.
Yesterday I installed Arachne 1.70, and it seemed pretty
straightforward. I still need to get an IP address from my ISP, which
Internut Exploder and Nutscrape seem not to need. I was able to do
that much with just a TAB key. I have yet to read all the Help,
though.
> Easy enough to say "yes, you can do that". If you do, please let
> us know how it goes.
Will do. If I get the right info from my ISP, I should get it up
over the weekend. From what I now know, it will be pretty slow on this
tired machine, but that is better than nothing. Incidentally, after
being on Win98 for the last three and a half years, I forgot what DOS
was like. I have NDOS installed as a command processor, and that along
with NANSI.SYS enabled me to set up a good menuing interface. I even
have the more powerful machine dual bootable into Win98 or DR-DOS 7,
but I could not get Procomm Plus / DOS installed: CPU is too fast (at
least I suppose that is what the problem is. Also, the fast machine
has only a cheesy winmodem.
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Paul Bartlett
bartlett AT smart DOT net
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