Elliott Goodman wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:
-=> Quoting David Calafrancesco to Elliott Goodman on 24 Feb 97  10:16:58 <=-
 DC> Elm has been ported to OS2 for quite a while...
 EG> Elm is a textmode Internet email client? Seems I took a
 EG> quick look at it and it was a complicated mess to set up.
 EG> Does it have its own editor, etc?
I had it setup way back when I first connected to the net. Haven't looked at 
it in over a year though. 
 DC> Sounds like you are not setting up your resolv file properly. Try to
 DC> not autostart stuff and see what happens when you manually start.
 DC> Failing that, use InJoy 1.0 to make your connection.
 EG> What resolv file? Does InJoy hand off the connection to
 EG> Elm/whatever? How does it work?
You need background in what TCP/IP and PPP are doing in your system. First, 
nothing is 'passed' off to anything. When you connect to your ISP with a PPP 
dialer (be it DOIP, PPPDIAL, InJoy, IPDIAL etc... ) it opens a TCP/IP stack 
connection to your provider. It sets up a system where by you can resolve 
domain names to the actual 4 byte IP address (ie drakkar.mhv.net RESOLVes to 
199.0.0.200). Once the IP stack is connected and setup, ANY number of 
programs can access it. Any number of copies of the same program can access 
it as well. My father was amazed the other day when I connected him and 
proceeded to open multiple WebExplorer sessions all pulling images and 
graphics at the same time, then went and started an FTP, and read and sent 
his email. He was stunned. His only other exposure to the net was what he had 
seen a friend do with AOhelL on a Mac of all things. He never realized what 
the power of OS2 meant until that point. 
Once the IP stack is loaded you can manually start as many things as 
necessary, be it flash and sizzle like Netscape or real apps like 
WebExplorer. InJoy also allows you to run certain programs at startup as well 
as at every reconnection and at shutdown. You can also setup background 
monitor apps that check your connection up the line for a clean connect and 
if it isn't kill the dialer and restart it to force a reconnect. The 
possibilities are endless. 
 DC> InJoy is also a text mode app and one of the most stablest PPP dialers
 DC> I have used.
 EG> Guess I have to look at that, too. Can one call Netscape/2
 EG> from InJoy? 
You can autostart _any_ app that can be started from a command line with 
InJoy directly and you can get a 3rd party 'icon starter' that will start any 
WPS object from a command line (and hence from injoy). 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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