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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael J. Tardiff) writes:
>Path: nwnexus!bellevue-ip86.halcyon.com!tardiff
>From: [e-mail] (Michael J. Tardiff)
>Newsgroups: alt.winsock
>Subject: Re: I'd PAY for a good news reader
>Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 03:51:45 GMT
>Organization: Western Star Consulting
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>References: <[e-mail]>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: bellevue-ip86.halcyon.com
>X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #1]


>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Steve Sykes) writes:

>>Is anyone aware of a GOOD news reader that runs over winsock?

>By GOOD, I assume you mean, "with the functionality of trn, tin, or nn."

>There isn't any such animal, at the current time.

>I think lots of folks are underestimating the enormous amount of work that
>producing a Windows equivalent of trn or tin involves.

Im designing some new freeware clients. My own use is my primary motivation
but I'll share :). So (he asks naively), what does trn, tin or nn do that's so
must better? [donning flame suite just incase].

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From: [e-mail] (Doug Evans)
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Subject: Winsock

I have been led to believe that Winsock can be used with a dialup
account, such as I have with Netcom. For those that don't know what that
is, but would like to answer, it just means that I dial directly into a
Cshell.


Doug Evans
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Subject: Re: Win Mosaic alpha 4  (before you curse it...)

>Let me guess...  you have an S3 video adapter?  I have exactly the same
problem>with my Orchid - they're aware of the problem, and working on it, but
>apparently it's not solved yet.  Microsoft has some S3 Drivers on their ftp
>site - you might want to try them (I haven't yet, so no endorsement...)

Not completely. The same problem has occured on several machines we have tried
it on, with several different video cards. The only simply way around the
hanging of the game is to delete it from its window and browse to the same one
and add it. I am not certain of the origin of the problem, even tho several
machines were intel with normal configurations and with no S3 or special video
controllers or drivers.
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Subject: Win Mosaic alpha 4

Hi all,

I've been trying unsuccessfully to get WinMosaic alpha4 up and
running with Trumpet Winsock 1.0 under Windows 3.1.  My first problem
is to get win32s successfully installed.  I unzip win32s11.zip,
run the setup program (which reports success) and then proceed
to install freecell to make sure that win32s was properly installed.

Freecell installation reports success, windows reboots but then
when I try and use freecell it (freecell) hangs.  I get the freecell
window, but then when I try and use any of the pull downs, I get
nothing.  Sometimes, depending on which pull down's I invoke, the
entire machine will hang forcing a complete reboot.

Any ideas??

Many thanks in advance,

Greg King, [e-mail]

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Subject: Re: Winsock

In article <hbae.767152587@cwis> [e-mail] (Hansang Bae) writes:
>[e-mail] (Doug Evans) writes:
>>I have been led to believe that Winsock can be used with a dialup
>>account, such as I have with Netcom. For those that don't know what that
>>is, but would like to answer, it just means that I dial directly into a
>>Cshell.

>I'm not familiar with Netcom.  However, if by "dial directly into a
>Cshell." you mean that you dial up to a modem, which is connnected to a
>termserver, which is connected to a unix box, I highly doubted.  But if
>your account can support SLIP, then you should be good to go.  BTW, how
>do you ftp files?  Do you ftp it to your account, THEN d/l via
>x/y/zmodem?  Or do you ftp it directly to your harddisk?

This may not be relevant, but I just discovered a third type of access that
does not require/allow use of a Winsock.  The so-called "Texas Information
Highway" implements a non-SLIP-based dialup server, similar to a bulletin
board, to provide Internet access.  Menus, including gophers, are used to
navigate and find information at any accessible Internet site.  Text-based
data is viewable on screen, but both binary and text files can be downloaded
in one step to the hard drive by simply pressing "d" once a selection is made.
 The end result:  FTP via X/Y/Zmodem!

Best of all, it's free (though long-distance charges apply outside Austin)!
The number is 512-475-4765 (VT100 emulation) if you want to try it.  I hope
Mr. McDilda isn't going to come after me now . . . ;)

Trent Stevens  [e-mail]
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Subject: Re: Trumpet sucks.  Anyone else?

>Can Trumpet all together, (although I kind of like the news reader)
>and get "The Windows Internet Tour Guide" by Michael Fraase,
>Ventana Press, ISBN 1-56604-081-7, for about $25.


I must agree, even tho I use OS2, there are many times I must exit, to get it
to clean up. Mosaic seems to be most reliable when a cleanup is needed without
exit.