--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F2V00001 Date: 02/25/98 From: WILL HONEA Time: 01:12pm \/To: MIKE SINCLAIR (Read 2 times) Subj: Netscape/2 part II Mike Sinclair wrote to David Calafrancesco on 02-24-1998 Try using ftp. for netscape, you want: ftp://ftp.service.ibm.com/software/asd/ns202/en_us/nets202.exe for the plugin pack, use: ftp://ftp.service.ibm.com/software/asd/nspip102/en_us/pluginpk.exe Lot faster and the site supports resume in case you get trashed. Will Honea --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F2V00002 Date: 02/25/98 From: JAMES MCKENZIE Time: 05:12am \/To: MIKE SINCLAIR (Read 2 times) Subj: Netscape/2 part II Hello Mike! 24 Feb 98 21:31, Mike Sinclair wrote to David Calafrancesco: MS> Does anyone have this latest version available as a FREQ ? Prefer in MS> Australia but if needs must.....I'll go elsewhere. Did you try IBM Australia's web site? The problem might be that IBM "World" will not let you have it. This is disturbing, as that site should. James ... OS/2 ... 32-bit beauty that's more than just skin-deep. --- GoldED/2 2.50+ * Origin: OS/2 Support * Your place for OS/2 information and Files (1:309/63) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F2V00003 Date: 02/25/98 From: MURRAY LESSER Time: 02:46pm \/To: MIKE SINCLAIR (Read 2 times) Subj: Netscape/2 part II Excerpted from a message dated 02-24-98, Mike Sinclair to David Calafrancesco: DC> www.software.ibm.com is the top level for software choice... DC> ...Netscsape you have DC> to choose to Get netscape 2.02, select OS2 for the OS and it will DC> dump you into IBMs netscape download directories. MS>I have just come offline from the URL above. What a convoluted mess >! MS>I got to "download netscape" OK and then the language selection and >that is as far as I could go. I tried getting to it from various >paths, ie via software selection, via downloads, via ad infinitum >but could not get past select your language no matter what I did. I >don't believe I am totally stupid but I have serious reservations >granting the same quality to whomever designed that download >proceedure. It does not work. Hi Mike-- Now you know why I suffer the World Wide Wait only when there isn't any other way to get software that I want. Your experience is typical of what I usually get (not only from IBM), but this time was different. I started at http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/swchoice and wandered around for about 20 minutes (retracing my steps at times) before I found the place that let me download NetScape/2, which took about another 30 minutes. Since it gave me my choice of using either HTTP or FTP for the actual download, I picked FTP or I might have fallen into your infinite loop! Yes, the end product was Level 7. Actually, I never use NetScape on the Web--only to read IBM-supplied CD-ROMs that require it. So I am not sure why I got myself into this farrago in the first place except out of curiosity. But once I was in the morass, I was too stubborn to give up! Incidentally, I was using the version of WebEx (1.2) that was shipped with Warp 4 for this expedition. Maybe it was using WebEx, rather than NetScape/2, that let me find my way through the wilderness :-). Regards, --Murray ___ * MR/2 2.25 #120 * User-friendly: (adj.) trivialized, slow, incapable, and boring --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F2V00004 Date: 02/24/98 From: DOUG VOGT Time: 03:39pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Dial other providers I'm trying to dial Bell Atlantic net using OS/2 instead of rebooting my machine to W95. How do I configure the dialer - especially the IP addresses? I get a the error: Couldn't determine hostname" and the connection fails after "expecting connect." --- msgedsq/2 2.1a * Origin: GYPSY BARON, Bridgewater, NJ V32b/V42b/V34/VFC (1:2605/638) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F3300000 Date: 02/26/98 From: FRANK SEXTON Time: 05:35am \/To: DOUG VOGT (Read 2 times) Subj: Dial other providers -=> /* Quoting Doug Vogt to All */ <=- DV> I'm trying to dial Bell Atlantic net using OS/2 DV> instead of rebooting my machine to W95. How do I DV> configure the dialer - especially the IP addresses? I DV> get a the error: Couldn't determine hostname" and the DV> connection fails after "expecting connect." Call BA using your terminal program. Make note of what you have to type in to get the thing to go into ppp mode. Then go to the OS/2 DOIP and type that same stuff into the login window and save. Use "\r" for carriage returns after each input. Also make sure you type in the "Domain Name server into DOIP" before starting. Hostname is usually your ISP's name with "net" behind it. I.E. concentric.net, msn.net, ibm.net etc... Here's my logon entries in DOIP for one of my ISP's... \r \r fsexton@ppp \r my_password \r Works for me on many IPS's. Notice: This particular ISP allows me to use the "@ppp" with my logon to start a ppp session. Some ISP's just want you to type "ppp" after your login. Just depends. Also note that I have one extra carriage return at the top. This particular ISP's needs that. No special reason. Just check whatever works and then use it. -Frank (fsexton@ibm.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton) --- Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 * Origin: Wildcard BBS - Thornton, CO 1-303-252-0491 (1:104/725) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F3300001 Date: 02/27/98 From: JOHN THOMPSON Time: 09:52am \/To: STEVEN COX (Read 2 times) Subj: Vmodem In a message to ALL, STEVEN COX wrote re: VMODEM SC> Can anyone tell me if Vmodem can be started with inetd.exe? I tried SC> "telnet tcp vmodem path" But it said it could not bind. That's not how you want to do it. VMODEM is for creating a "virtual modem" so a standard comm program can act as a telnet client. Make sure you have SIO.SYS properly configured for a virtual modem in CONFIG.SYS (eg, DEVICE=D:\SIO\SIO.SYS (2,2F8,10) (4:115200,,,-) (COM3,INTERNET,NONE) to use COM3 as a virtual com port) then put a "START D:\SIO\VMODEM" line in your /tcpip/bin/tcpstart.cmd file. Configure your comm program to use the virtual com port (eg, COM3 in the example) and when you reboot, you're all set. * KWQ/2 1.2i * Internet: John.Thompson@ibm.net --- Silver Xpress Mail System 5.4P1a * Origin: TeLnEt tO: applegate.com, a BBS oN tHE iNterNET (1:139/631) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F3300002 Date: 02/27/98 From: DALE SHIPP Time: 08:16pm \/To: BEN HAMILTON (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Vmodem -=> On 02-25-98 17:32, Ben Hamilton <=- -=> spoke to Steven Cox about Vmodem <=- SC> Can anyone tell me if Vmodem can be started with inetd.exe? I SC> tried "telnet tcp vmodem path" But it said it could not bind. BH> I don't think it can. It needs to be running all the time. Here is a related question: Currently I tend to start Vmodem each time I want to make an internet connection using it (after I have connected to my ISP using the Dial Other Providers api). Is there any reason that I should not have Vmodem running all the time? I.e. cause it to start when boot up happens? Does it take any resources if it is not doing anything? dale (at) min (dot) net (1:261/1466) ... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 20:18:10 27 Feb 98 ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Owl's Anchor (1:261/1466) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F3300003 Date: 02/27/98 From: JOE PATTERSON Time: 10:49pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: ICQ Greetings All! Is anyone using ICQ and netscape/2?? -=Jp=- jpatt@televar.com --- * Origin: Evergreen-One, Cashmere Wa. 509+782+4259. WAEIC, 28.8 (1:344/91) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F3300004 Date: 02/28/98 From: DON GUY Time: 08:38am \/To: JOE PATTERSON (Read 2 times) Subj: ICQ Greetings Joe! A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a coded message from Joe Patterson to All was intercepted... JP> Is anyone using ICQ and netscape/2?? I was, until I installed 0.98 of ICQ. It was generating an excpetion, so I assumed that it was a classpath problem (1.0.2 and 1.1.4 are both on here), and started fiddling. Now Netscape dies on any Java enabled page, whether I have it set to use 1.0.2 or 1.1.x. Could someone please post the correct path/libpath/classpath statements to have Netscape run with the 1.1.x build of Java? -Don ... Windows 95: So intuitive it only needs a 5 meg of help files --- * Origin: Extreme Impossibility/2 [Kingston, Ontario, Canada] (1:249/176) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 273 OS/2 INTERNET Ref: F3300005 Date: 02/27/98 From: CHRISTIAN STERZIK Time: 11:04pm \/To: ANDY ROBERTS (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Netscape/2 troubles Tachchen ! Am 21.02.98 meinte Andy Roberts AR> I'm using ns2_128_US.zip level 4S now and it seems ok. I agree with AR> you about the version level 6 that was released just prior to AR> 14-Feb-98 did have problems. Hmmm... How often will I have to et a new Navigator 2.02 ?-) Isn't it ironic.... > I read the latest level 7 version was AR> supposed to have fixed some of the problems. I'll try... AR> That sounds more like a video card/driver problem. I use an Elsa Winner Trio V, with an S3 (somehow enhanced) Chipset. Elsa supports OS/2 since a long time, and they still make drivers for their cards under OS/2... I got a new one tweo months ago, the one that shipped with the card is about 1.5 years old now (like the card...) I thought that original drivers wouldn't cause problems like that... Or could it be, that I haven't got enough RAM ? 2 MB D-Ram , running in 800x600 in 65 thousand colours and 82 Mhz. > I had similar AR> problems with many apps when I used a Diamond video card and Warp4. AR> But since I bought a Matrox Millenium with 4MB RAM I have never had AR> that problem again. Hmmm... I won't like to buy new ahrdware right now... Teh german tax buerau mailed me last week, they want about 1000 US$ tax from me, only because they made more severe oekological rules for cars. Though my Diesel ist build in dec 1992 and eats up only 6.5 litres / 100 km.... :-( These irs folks really get on my nerves... CS>> I tried lots of stuff... Really... But some crashes are not CS>> explainable logically. Sometimes at booting up he gives a Trap CS>> with SingleQ$, another time a 000d, another time a 000e AR> I think that is a video problem. Ah. Do you know if there could be a software solution ? AR> I just went there and looked around for a long time and went back AR> and forth and never had the slightest problem of any kind. With java = on, i could do that too... AR> BTW, I had Java enabled while at that site you mentioned. So AR> turning it off was not necessary. Jupp. But always turnin' java on and off ? Hows taht if you use 4 Browser windows at a time ? AR> * Origin: Why is OS/2 hundreds of times faster than Win95? (1:109/ 921.1) Wow... How could I do this to mine ? Bis denn Christian --- CrossPoint v3.11 R * Origin: Es ist ein Zunder in uns,der Funken will (2:2435/708.49)