From: Gary Welles 

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



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