"Anthony J. Albert" wrote: > > On 25 Dec 2003 at 14:19, Day Brown wrote: > [SNIP] > >BUT- I have no way to get online with dos anymore. All three of my local > >ISPs have win xp servers which use MS-CHAP, and there's no dos ppp > >driver that can work with it. LSPPP mentions expressly that it does not > >support MS-CHAP, saying it is rare. But I think there is some planned > >obselescence at work, for only the most recent distros will logon on > >either. KPPP sometimes works. But if people have trouble logging on, why > >then, just buy the newer distro from REDHAT. I think Redhat has figured > >that out. > > I believe I recall that "epppd", a DOS PPP package, does support MS- > CHAP, though I'm not sure. I admit, I have an ISP which provides a text- > based login, so I haven't had to investigate that. the google links said no support. Someone 'hoped' they would develop it, but I think development energy is waning. Same reason arachne is now abandonware. I did read of a new ppp driver setup for OS/2 which showed promise, but aint had time to check it out yet.
It looks like the webmasters are being sold tools to provide more eyecandy so their work can appear more uptodate. Which is why your experience, that you need either IE, netscape, mozilla, or opera to render the page. Arachne couldnt keep up with it. I too was impressed by Firebird, but when I tried to install it, it told me I needed a newer kernel (I'm running corel/debian 2.2.16). And when I downloaded the newer kernel, it told me I didnt have GCC 2.95, and when I d/l GCC, it told me I needed gtk+.... One of the reasons I like dos. If an app dont work in a ramdisk, delete it. It dont clutter up the drive, and it dont tell me I dont have permission and that I dont have certain dependancies. I'm not interested in learning how to become a sysad, just want to run my own desktop. 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
