On this most-of-the-day, most-everything workhorse '286/25MHz AT
running DR-DOS I'm perfectly well served with LSppp as the small (!28K)
socket/packet driver (Trumpet Winsocks doesn't serve in a less-than-386
anyway), and some small and fast clients for mail, ftp, and (text)
browsing using the '286 Bobcat - I've linked in CSHOW as an external
picture viewing tool if I need to get one of those from a www page on
screen (Lpix wouldn't work with the B/W Herc screen), so this might
answer one of your questions:
> I need a web browser working in graphic mode for I need to see some
> pictures.
(btw CShow, or CompuShow, is a marvel on a big/fast machine too, I use
it to quickly pre-sort pics from large digicam Compact Flash cards on a
"big" Linux machine - in a DOS corner - with high-res screen.)
> The main problems arise with MIME, attachments, digests, etc.
- you said, and then -
> But I could find a very good email client - better in many respects than
> Outlook Express- that works comfortably under W3.1.
-- and I suspect this could be Pegasus (well, everything would be
better than Outhouse Exploder), and wouldn't that one take care of all
the attachment nuisances ? Pegasus for DOS is free by now (AFAIK),
though it's a "big" thing; quite impressive indeed.
My solution is somewhat more simplistic, an offline mail reader (in
this case, my own, ReRead; but there _are_ others) which wouldn't
automatically decode attachments but allow for plug-ins to do the job,
if you need it.
(Mostly not, as in many instances the dang HTML/rtf/msword."doc"
attachments produced by those outhouse exploders only repeat, at 9- to
90-fold bloat, what's written plain text in the mail body anyway...)
Additional advantage is that you're definitely safe from any virus/worm
attacks and web bugs this way.
Engelke's FTP ("ftp07.zip" in the archives) is a perfect complement to
the Bobcat Lynx as "external" ftp functionality, and as a stand-alone
ftp client on top of the LSppp socket (it uses the same WATTCP.CFG as
the other clients).
With that lightning fast modem you name (230 Kbps ?!) you should get
quite some good perfomance with a setup like this.[*]
// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2001-12-27
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net
[*] and then "only" a 44K carrier ? (With that "56Kflex/V90" i have
here I get, under best/calm line conditions, a carrier of up to 48K; but
real transmission is hardly dependent on the modem specifics any more
as the bottleneck is elsewhere, with Net throughput overall.)
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