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Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 16:49:04 +0100
From: Peter Smith <polaris@ursaminr.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Welcome and some questions...
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In message <ab840b347%vlefevre@mail.hol.fr>
Vincent Lefevre <vlefevre@ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
> In message <5a83eeb147%polaris@ursaminr.demon.co.uk> Peter Smith wrote:
>
> > Slipdial, because I'm used to it. If Freedial was made SA compatible, I'd
> > be
>
> FreeDial is SA compatible (I've never had any problem with it).
>
Maybe it was the version that I had, but it would only work with the cache
turned off.
> > willing to have a look. What advantages does Freedial have? Can you use
> > multiple scripts, so you can log onto differnent ISPs?
>
> Yes, you can have different ISPs, different POPs, different users,
> different modems, different TCP/IP stacks, and different scripts
> (e.g. if you want to use SLIP or PPP or something else with the same
> provider). It is very configurable.
Let's go for Freedial then
>
> > I think Freenews. I've tried on 2 occasions to get Newshound to work, and
> > both times it just doesn't work. It downloads half the articles in the
> > first group and then dies. I however it's more stable since I last
> > looked, and it downloads faster than Newsbase, then use Newshound.
>
> Now I use NewsHound as FreeNews doesn't work with one of my providers
> (because of the NEWNEWS command). But NewsHound doesn't seem to work with
> FreeNet: it crashes very often.
>
Maybe this was the problem I had. I must admit I haven't tried it since I
upgraded to the Acorn stack. Maybe I'll have another go.
> > I say Acorn stack. In my experience the Freenet 2 stack gave me nothing
> > but trouble. It would crash at random intervals, and never last more than
> > 10 minutes without all comms stopping. I've now been running the Internet
> > 5.02
>
> I have no problem with FreeNet, except when I use NewsHound.
> FreeTerm doesn't work very well with the Acorn stack (it is sometimes OK
> when I do a "cache off" before the connection). And the programs ping and
> traceroute from the Acorn stack don't work: they intensively acceed to
> the harddisc and don't seem to do anything else.
>
PING works fine for me. I must admit to having had some problems logging into
some servers with Freeterm.
The reason I (personally) want to
> > stack for a few months and it's fine. (so long as you add -e in the
> > ifconfig command!)
>
> What is this option?
>
It sends all errors and output to the "standard" error output (stderr?) and
not to screen. Otherwise the log in procedure would halt with
"ifconfig : route already present"
(or a similar message) in a single tasking window. The -e solution was
discussed ages ago on CSA.networking.
ATB
Peter
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