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- In article <2kg34f$gls@nellie.musc.edu>, lindrojr@musc.edu (John Lindroth)
- writes:
- > From: lindrojr@musc.edu (John Lindroth)
- > Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,alt.winsock
- > Subject: Re: I'm ready to spend money - free and shareware WINSOCK not
- > ok Date: 23 Feb 1994 17:18:07 GMT
- > Organization: MUSC
- >
- > In article <2kbtut$ott@Mercury.mcs.com>, karl@MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
- > says:
- > >I am now running another stack, which will remain nameless until I get
- > >done with my evaluation. At which point you'll all hear about it.
- > >My first impression -- THIS IS WONDERFUL STUFF -- CONSIDER NOTHING
- > >ELSE! It has three huge wins - (1) it works, (2) it works, (3) it
- > >works.
- > ....
- > >Best attribute after "it works" of one of these packages:
- > > Its affordable. ~$25 retail.
- >
- > Karl, please don't hold the silence too long, This sounds great!
- > BTW, does this stack do Ethernet connections as well? We need both, and
- > at a price like that, (that works) I can't wait to try it.
- >
- > John Lindroth
- > Medical University of SC
- > Center for Computing and Information Technology
- > -- I represent only myself --
-
- I'm hesitant to do this, but there's potential for this to get out of hand
- with misunderstandings.
-
- I've been corresponding privately with Karl about a product that is now
- available. It's called the Windows Internet Tour Guide. It's a book that
- comes with a disk and I'm the author (I'm the author of lots of books
- including the Mac Internet Tour Guide and the PC Internet Tour Guide), so
- take all of this with a pretty big grain of salt.
-
- The software that comes with the book is NetManage's Chameleon Sampler v3.11
- (including the WINSOCK.DLL, integrated SLIP and PPP, mail, ftp, and TELNET).
- I'm not going to pull any punches. There are better e-mail clients and FTP
- clients that are just as good. But the Chameleon WINSOCK.DLL is the best I've
- seen. I haven't found anything it won't work with. In fact, it was the only
- one I could get to work consistently and reliably (but then, I'm mostly a Mac
- person, so go figure).
-
- THERE IS A DOWNSIDE. READ WHAT FOLLOWS CLOSELY:
-
- The software included with the book works only with SLIP and PPP connections.
- Direct Ethernet connections ARE NOT SUPPORTED. If you need Ethernet support,
- NetManage's Chameleon (the full package) is the best I've seen.
-
- The book started shipping last week; it should start showing up in stores in
- a few more weeks.
-
- You can get more information by anonymous ftp at ftp.farces.com in the
- /pub/visitors-center/windows-internet-tour-guide/ directory. (The files are
- in Adobe Acrobat and No Hands Common Ground format.) Please be aware that I'm
- in the process of moving this archive to a different machine sometime soon
- (the domain name address will be the same) so there may be a problem with
- connections for as long as a day.
-
-
- --
- Michael Fraase, proprietor
- Arts & Farces
- mfraase@farces.com
-
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