MICHEL SAMSON wrote in a message to RICHARD WEBB:

MS> Hi Richard,

RW> I know I could do dial-up internet...

MS> I wonder how you got the impression that i was writing about
MS> Dial-Up, my connection is through DSL (6016/512 Kbps Interleaved)
MS> and has been for a couple years now.  Here's what i had in mind, you
MS> just need to register: 

MS> {Commo} proven versatile, DOSInterNet, 2007-Nov-11

MS> Well, those are pictures so i'm not sure if you can appreciate what
MS> that was about but it shows that the same dialer can do three
MS> things:  make a connection to local BBSes, dial up to an ISP and
MS> install a PPP driver or load the Packet-Driver for an NIC and
MS> configure your WatTCP environment, euh...  Oups!  I forgot a fourth
MS> one:  to TelNet to some remote BBSes... 
Just with the sw you mentioned was thinking dial-up.
the objective:  Be able to manipulate some of the local network machines,
access email; cause automatic retrieval of text files from some web pages,
etc. Not sure how to go about all this, whether I'd need a serial port open
on one of the machines and a null modem cable connecting them or whether I
could use regular networking coax to the hub, which would be preferred
route. system I had going in NEw ORleans connected with regular network
cable to the network hub. AS I said, I'm not the sharpest computer guy
around, and not quite sure how this friend of mine accomplished all this.
YOu're right about the pictures, wouldn't tell me anything.  Also, part of
the problem with this old dos box and its current sw is that place such as
yahoo don't like this antique browser. I could flip things around to linx
and a ppp driver with all that, but I sort of like the offline reader for
internet email a bunch better on a dial-up line.  HOWever with a broadband
connection and our own mail services locally that isn't as much of an i I
know there's good dos internet  clients for sendmail etc.  Hence would
rather use them if I can get around the physical connections to network
etc.




Regards,
           Richard
... A good captain is hoisting his first drink in a bar when the storm hits.
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