DG> browser I found STiK. Hows that for fast service :-)

EL> It does not use MiNT Net,
EL> which I think is a big  mistake!!

 DG> Me neither. I don't have slip access anyway. But to even try it I have
 DG> to pay some slip hookup charge, and whatever it costs for 1 month
 DG> minimum. For now I'll stick with Lynx.

Because until STiK, we had a standard TCP/IP networking package - and
programmers could make a single set of simple calls to access TCP/IP
services, and porting TCP/IP applications from Unix was easy (usually
just a 'make').

Now we have two standards, and programmers have two incompatible interfaces
for TCP/IP access.  STiK is NOT compatible with the standard BSD socket
interface, it does NOT support compressed SLIP, or PPP.  It has little
to no diagnostic features.  It is NOT useful a a general purpose networking
package - its for Internet dial-up purposes only, and it achieves that
end for some people.  However, a graphical application for MiNT-NET
would be much better.

The good new is, that the author of MiNT NET is considering a wrapper
library that would allow MiNT-NET users to run CAB and other STiK TCP/IP
programs under MiNT-NET.  I think its a great idea - a way to get things
uniform again.

I've tried STiK, and can't mak it work - I think its because my Internet
provider defaults to compressed SLIP, which makes STiK barf!  Either that
or the setup is much more difficult than MiNT-NET.


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