mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Steven Horn at 10:30 on 31 Mar 2003:

 ml> now, i was being pedantic ... your statement seemed, to me, to
 ml> be a blanket statement and covering all situations which i knew was
 ml> false and thus my post... i have built, in the past, several

Incomplete, perhaps, but not false.  If the boxes come with Windows 9X, NT
or 2K, the Windows Socket stack and TCP/IP protocol come with it ready to
be installed.

 ml> hundred machines that did not get the network protocols installed
 ml> by default... networking was not needed or desired... yes, win9x,
 ml> winNT, and w2k machines...

In North Carolina?  Here the boxes either need networking installed to
connect to LANS or to connect to the Internet, or both.  If I have seen a
PC around here which did not have networking installed, it was only because
I had to install it.

Take care,

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