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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ashok Aiyar) writes:

>The only DOS based POP3 server that I am aware of
>is the POP3 server written by Erik Olson that is available in some
>versions of KA9Q.

There is also a very good DOS program written by Philip Burns called NUPop.
It is available for ftp at casbah.acns.nwu.edu.  It also includes a gopher
client, ftp client, and terminal emulator, etc.  The protected mode version
runs very nicely under windows, and the newest alpha release also contains a
newsreader.  The windows version is supposed to be released this year.  I
don't know if this will be a winsock based program or not.

Michael.
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Subject: RFD: comp.os.ms-windows new groups

This is the official Request for Discussion (RFD) for the creation of five
new newsgroups for Microsoft Windows.  This is a separate (but coordinated)
RFD from the one recently posted by Steve Scoggins (see .networking.windows
group, below).

The proposed new groups are described below:

NAME:      comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip
STATUS:  Unmoderated.
PURPOSE: Discussions about using Windows with TCP/IP networks.  This
     includes discussions about TCP/IP implementations, NFS, WinSock,
     TCP/IP utilities, and connectivity and internetworking issues.

NAME:      comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows *
STATUS:  Unmoderated.
PURPOSE: Discussions about using Windows networks (Windows for Workgroups,
     NT Advanced Server and LAN Manager).  *THIS GROUP IS COVERED BY
     ANOTHER RFD, POSTED BY STEVE SCOGGINS <[e-mail]>.  Please
     follow up to that RFD if you wish to comment on this group (that
     RFD is being revised to be named .networking.windows).

NAME:     comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc
STATUS:     Unmoderated.
PURPOSE: Discussions about using Windows with networks other than TCP-IP
     and Windows networks (WFWG, NTAS, LANMan).  Topics may include
     compatability issues, security, interoperability and performance.

NAME:     comp.os.ms-windows.video
STATUS:     Unmoderated.
PURPOSE: Discussions about display adapters, monitors, video drivers,
     compatability and performance issues under Windows.

NAME:     comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp
STATUS:     Unmoderated.
PURPOSE: Discussions about designing, creating and maintaining Windows
     helpfiles, including related development tools.

NAME:     comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.frameworks
STATUS:     Unmoderated.
PURPOSE: Discussions about application frameworks for Windwos development.
     All frameworks, including OWL, MFC and C++/Views are appropriate,
     and any framework-specific discussion should be in this group
     instead of .programmer.misc or .programmer.tools.

RATIONALE:
    Microsoft Windows continues its growth as the most popular PC-based
    operating environment in the world, with somewhere over 40 million
    copies shipped.  As a result, the traffic in the Windows newsgroups
    has continued to grow at an unabated pace.

    The December readership statistics show an average of about 60
    messages per day in the .apps and .programmer.misc groups, and
    heavy traffic in .misc as well.  The excerpt shown below:

      +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
      |     +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
      |     |       +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
      |     |       |      +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
      V     V       V      V
        91000  1224   1734  2495.4   comp.os.ms-windows.apps
        87000  1173   1098  1596.5   comp.os.ms-windows.misc
        83000  1116   1795  2755.8   comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
        77000  1039     42   193.8   comp.os.ms-windows.announce
        70000   940    491   898.5   comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
        68000   917    408   588.4   comp.os.ms-windows.setup
        61000   817    443   701.4   comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
        60000   804    718  1755.4   comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
        57000   768    993  1395.2   comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
        44000   591    424   568.2   comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup


    Some of the heaviest topics of discussion in the non-programmer
    groups are networking and video drivers.  A subject line analysis
    found the following article percentages in the main groups in
    the past 45 days:

    Newsgroup    video        TCP/IP    WinNet        MiscNet
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    .apps              69          237         145            7
    .misc             124           73         121           60
    .setup            150           41         177           21
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    Total             343          351         443           88

    The only group without heavy existing traffic is .networking.misc,
    but it should, in my opinion, be created for symmetry and to give
    a place for Netware, Vines, LANtastic etc. discussions.


    The .programmer.misc group is has very heavy traffic, but is
    difficult to split into subgroups.  The only identifiable topics
    that can, and should, be split are WinHelp programming and
    application framework discussions.  Creating separate groups for
    these will somewhat reduce the .programmer.misc traffic, as well
    as provide a focused and reasonably-sized group for people wishing
    to discuss these specific topics.

DISCUSSION PERIOD:
    The discussion period will run from 07 February 1994 to 27 February
    1994.

VOTING:
    The CFV (Call for Votes) will be issued on 28 February 1994, based
    on the feedback received during the discussion period.  No votes will
    be accepted prior to the CFV.
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Subject: winsock w/ modem

what are the MTU, TCP RWIN, and TCP MSS settings for a modem slip connection
and a modem ppp connection with winsock.
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Subject: Re: Win/Mosaic Problems with FTP server

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Tom Kunka) writes:
>I have Mosaic up and running in Windows and I put a sample HTML doc available
>for anon FTP, but when I access it, all I get is plain text with no
>formatting.  The whole file was just taken as text.  Anyone know the solution?

Well, there's two things to try - first of all, from what I understand
from looking at some of the HTML documents out on the net, if the
first few characters are "<html>", the document is to be treated as
html formatted (And it should end in "</html>").  However, last time I
tried that with WinMosaic, it didn't work.  However, it seems to have
worked out that if you ask for a file that ends ".html" or ".htm",
then that is probably an html formatted file.

Alun.
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Subject: Mosaic for Windows

I am trying to setup my OS/2 workstation to run Mosaic for Windows and am having trouble configuring the TCP/IP parameters to enable the Dos/Windows Access to my Token Ring connection. LAPS seems to be configured correctly for the rest of my connections as I can access the desired servers via ftp or telenet. If anyone has had sucess in establishing a connection using Winsock and TCPMAN on Token Ring under OS/2 I would be very appreciative if you could give me some help. My PS/2 is usually on between 8:00 A
M and 6:30 PM Monday thru Friday.