I tried SlipKnot long ago when I had a shell account but not a PPP
account. I loved the interface and wrote a detailed critique of it
which I sent to the author in 1995. However, it was and probably
still is very slow by today's standards, since it kind of uses your
shell machine as a giant remote cache file which relays web data to
your PC. I thought it had been abandoned when shell accounts began to
become rare.
I suspect setup.exe is supposed to run on windows 3.1, so I would
suspect that win98 is not backward compatible with win 3.1 in
some way or other that messes up the setup program. Perhaps some
16-bit dll libraries are not there, etc.
I later found slirp which also relays data from your shell account
to you pc to be much faster and more versatile. The difference is that
slirp uses your shell account as a proxy server, and
doens not use lynx as an intermediate fetch program. Slirp is as fast
or faster than a PPP account, if your ISP permits you to use it, and
it allows you to run things like instant messenger by redirecting
http sessions to the PC - in effect simulating an IP address for your
PC.
__________________________
Howard Schwartz
theo "at" ncal.verio.com
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Garry wrote:
> SlipKnot is a magical little program that
> runs on a Win(16) or -- theoretically --
> a Win(32) machine, and provides a graphical
> interface to Lynx running on a *nix box.
>
> That is, you connect to a *nix box (telnet
> session style) and run this thing. It uses
> scripts on the *nix box to fetch and pass
> data to the Win(16/32) machine, on which
> SlipKnot is running, and SlipKnot renders
> the pages graphically there.
>
> BUT: I can't get it to install on my Win98
> box. On running SETUP.EXE, I get a message
> small window that alleges it's initialising
> setup.
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