Charles Angelich (1:106/2000) wrote to Steven Horn at 05:09 on 15 Apr 2003:

 CA> Poverty might be one reason.  Not extreme poverty third-world style
 CA> but a lack of funds to spend on a 'hobby'?

Granted that it should now be possible to find a machine which would run
DOS without it costing very much, is the rest of the stuff one needs likely
to be all that much cheaper? 

 CA> For some it is the challenge to experience the Internet as it _was_
 CA> at one time.  For others it's a puzzle to solve and a

You will know this better than I do but is the Internet through DOS
anything like it used to be?
  
 CA> distraction from everyday life.

That sounds like the Model A I played with in the 50s.

 CA> fwiw: If you have a need to download many large files from FTP
 CA> servers DOS FTP is as fast as your system hardware will allow with
 CA> no interprocess sharing of the CPU during the downloads. :-)

The absence of multitasking might be an advantage but with my ADSL, I've
found that the most significant problems are created by loads on servers
and by the location of the server.

 CA> I suspect they initiate the authentication as the newer MSCHAP then
 CA> 'fallback' to standard. Problem is my software has time limits and
 CA> is unaware of 'fallback/restart' etc. functions
 CA> required for this.

Can you extend the software timing? 

 CA> A short com file to send a refusal to do MSCHAP prior to
 CA> execution of standard PPP might work but I've not seen such a
 CA> beastie. :-)

I'll see if I can find anything using Google. 

 CA> This smells like another potential project to rewrite those
 CA> DOS apps where source code is available to refuse the MSCHAP and
 CA> wait to initiate the 'standard' or to add code to _do_ the MSCHAP?

But not by me. :-)

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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