Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:01:45 -0700 (MST)
From: Thomas A Webb <tawebb AT earthlink DOT net>
Subject: Re[2]: Graphical WWW Browser for DOS?
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The ppp dialer that comes with arachne should do the same handshake with
your isp that Windo$e does.. Is it the DNS ipno that your looking for??
 
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:14:29 -0500 (EST) "Paul O. BARTLETT" <bartlett AT smart DOT net> wrote:

> 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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