X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f Message-Id: Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:54:24 -0500 (EST) From: Gary Welles To: OpenDos Subject: Re: Arachne Web browser for DOS Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Day Brown repsonds: > Nope. What I see is: > %ascend% > then it asks for the system administrator password. A Traceroute to your mail server (mail.hypertech.net) indicates it's connected via AT&T. A local ISP may provided it own modems for customers to use it's connection to a Tier 1 ISP like AT&T. Other ISPs like AOL, Earthlink and MSN use the points of presence (POPS) of one or more Tier 1 providers such as UUnet(MCI), Sprint, and AT&T. > > They don't advertise for individual accounts in the US, but you > > can get them starting at $7.95, now under the MCI brand. Details > > at: URL=https://customercenter.mci.com/ > That's encouraging, however I live in a rural area of the Ozarks. > There are three local ISP choices, no other options. The sell network connections, no warm fuzzy home page. The above is customer service. An overview of the network can be found at their global site, including the dialup numbers in Bentonville, Fayetteville, Fort Smith and Harrison: URL=http://global.mci.com/about/network/pops/ Regarding DESQview/X: > . . .. Looks like it deserves more time than I have at > the moment. However, why cant a batch program perform the tedeious > conversion? More time than anyone has. There is a unix2dvx.exe utility that replaces Unix standard X filenames with the DOS standard X names. It's the filenames that are unique to an application that can drive you crazy. Names will automatically be truncated to DOS 8.3. This is fine when the result in a unique name, otherwise you have to think up new names and go renaming everything everywhere. -- Gary Welles