On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 20:14:48 -0500,
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As a user of many different DOS internet applications I have somehow
> developed the impression that different applications should use
> different WATTCP.CFGs for optimal performance. For this reason I do
> not simply copy the same WATTCP.CFG file to all of my applications as
> some others on this list are doing. As it turns out, I have just
> discovered for certain that it is indeed true that WATTCP.CFG files are
> in fact application-specific in some cases. I should like to point out
> a couple of references I found today that will bear this out:
>
> http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month081999/msg00668.html
> http://fdisk.com/doslynx/doslynx-dev/9911/0032.html
I believe that these discussions are about the differences between
16-bit and 32-bit Wattcp applications. In practice, I have found
that except for two minor additions (domain_list= and debug.file=),
I can use the same basic wattcp.cfg file with all my Wattcp apps,
including the 32-bit ones (Lynx386, wget). I do not specify things
such as mss or mtu, but just comment them out and use the default
values.
On the other hand, I don't think that using different wattcp.cfg
files for different applications should be an unsolvable problem.
There's more than one way to skin (or herd) a cat.
Howard E.
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