Message-Id: <199712290051.QAA17181@m6.sprynet.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: soren DOT andersen AT m6 DOT sprynet DOT com To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 19:51:36 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Questions... Precedence: bulk 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 . 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/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~