KA> Now, my current ISP recently sent us *all* an email that detailed a
 KA> series of steps for going through a Win95 network setup and checking
 KA> all of the various server settings. Nowhere did the message explain
 KA> the intent of these checks and changes, or what was actually to be
 KA> accomplished. I pretty much figured it out, but they clearly were
 KA> behaving under the assumption that *everyone* was running Win9x and
 KA> needed no further information. For that matter, even the original
 KA> setup information I was given consisted of pictures of the various
 KA> Win9x setup dialogs. No nice neat summary of the server addresses, I
 KA> had to read through several pages to find the various ip's and phone
 KA> numbers scattered through their instructions.

I was surprised by one of the free ISPs here in the U.K..  Despite the fact
that it too presented all configuration information on its support pages in
terms of pictures of the Windows dialogue boxes (What are they going to do
when Microsoft changes them?), and assumed throughout that one was running
DOS-Windows 9x, at the end of the sign-up process one is presented with a web
page that lists, in simple text-based tabular format that can be printed on
one side of A4 and archived for safekeeping, all of the necessary
configuration information for one's system, including PAP user ID and
password, POP3 user ID and password, the telephone number(s) to dial, the
names of the HTTP proxy, NNTP server, SMTP server, and the IP address of the
primary DNS server.

It was very simple to enter all of that information into OS/2's Dial Other
Internet Providers utility.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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