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Thanks for the suggestions, Sam and Bob. As I read the digest I was not able to react earlier. No problem if you send me a direct copy. As there is only one serial port on the XT which is connected to a modemsplitter, a nice little box which let every connected computer on the modem, I would like to stay with the ethernet card. Nettamer is not a must on my wife's XT because my wifes only connection with Nettamer is its editor "red". That is an awful editor but it has the advantage that it saves automatically and my wife can work with it. No lost draft emails since she started using it. With a menu she makes a choice of to whom she wants to write. If she thinks it should be on its way she just leaves red and goes to the menu where she is offered the choice to send it. A batch file ads the header and her own footer and activates nettamer.Nettamer is set that it does not receives any mail but just only sends her email away. After it is gone he could write another or she can look if it really went away, all with very simple menu commands. This is as far as she is prepared to be in contact with a computer. Since my local telephone number of my ISP does not function anymore, the email is sent with a long distance call to the same ISP. Nettamer is just the carrier which let her send an email to the kids and to friends via an long distance call. I would like to keep that possibility just to be on the safe side. I know that would my Linux machine be out of order or not working properly because I have played around she would loose still more of her poor opinion about computers ;-) (other than XT's) The second possibility I would like to create is that she has two choices. Try and send the email via the linux box and the local phone connection or if that does not work for whatever reason to have the option to send it on the more expensive route. That would mean that her email after composing gets its header and footer, receives the nettamer mail ending (mail.$01 mail.$02 etc) and is than send on its way by a batch file to my linux box which should post it or if the mail was not successfully send via the linux box, alternatively via nettamer. Ad>> "Constant Brouerius van Nidek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ad>wrote: Ad>>> My XT is setup with Nettamer for my wife who cannot stand Ad>that somebody Ad>> important before: It sounds like your wife runs NetTamer Ad>PERIOD, and has no Ad>> intention of changing. Is that correct? Ad>There is no better expert on Nettamer than the author of the Ad>program himself, David Colston. I should like to quote Ad>verbatim Ad>"Net-Tamer cannot work (as it is written) with another Ad>packet protocol. Ad>I hope the above will serve to clarify. Ad>That it does. It sounds to me like the XT running NetTamer Ad>talking to the Ad>Linux box running pppd would be a likely winner then Ad>(terminal servers and Ad>the like notwithstanding). I know this approach works, as I Ad>had my Palm Ad>handheld surfing the web this way a while back. Does that Ad>sound about right Ad>Samuel? Ad>The bummer is of course you're stuck with a serial link, Ad>despite the Ad>availability of a network. Constant, any chance your wife Ad>would give up Ad>NetTamer for other programs with similar functionality? Can Ad>anyone suggest Ad>any ethernet/packet-driver capable packages for DOS that Ad>might help? Ad>If nothing else Constant, you might configure terminal Ad>(shell) access Ad>alongside NetTamer on the XT. Perhaps you could introduce Ad>her to some of the Ad>Linux shell-based tools that provide equivalent Ad>functionality, and possibly Ad>open up more doors? Then you could move the XT more than 25 Ad>feet from the Linux box. :) LOL her box is one foot away from my setup. But we are never together working on our computers. I cannot stand the noise of the cooling fan of her power supply. It is something I can hear through the whole house ;-). The only thing I can do is make another addition to her menu. That would be the most ;-). What could I use to send a file from the XT to the linux box? -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.35w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
