Message-Id: <2.2.16.19980507025358.404f2f56@mustafa.hempseed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 19:53:58 -0700 To: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com From: Robert Sears Subject: Re: Networking questions Precedence: bulk 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.