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to: ELLIOTT GOODMAN
from: DAVID CALAFRANCESCO
date: 1997-02-24 10:16:00
subject: Textmode Email Client

Elliott Goodman wrote in a message to All:
 EG> Hi there!
 EG> What I'd like to have is a textmode email program. I've
 EG> tried MR/2 Ice and it works okay but is slow on my laptop.
 EG> Besides, I really prefer textmode apps. Anyone know of one I
 EG> can use?
Elm has been ported to OS2 for quite a while...
 EG> I set up the pppdial.cmd program with a response file to log
 EG> me on to my ISP and it worked fine but at the end, when I
 EG> had it load up MR/2 Ice, MR/2 gave me an error, something
 EG> about not being able to find the client or something. Same
 EG> thing happened when I tried loading Netscape/2; it couldn't
 EG> find the homepage, something about DNS not found or such.
 EG> What can I do to fix that?
Sounds like you are not setting up your resolv file properly. Try to not 
autostart stuff and see what happens when you manually start. Failing that, 
use InJoy 1.0 to make your connection. 
 EG> I still want to use a textmode app but fixing the above
 EG> might help me to understand what's going on and allow me to
 EG> configure the textmode app when I find it.
InJoy is also a text mode app and one of the most stablest PPP dialers I have 
used. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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