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[Setting up Email in DOS]
By Zoltan Graff (h10023gra@ella.hu)
Yesterday a found a DOS WEB browser: Bobcat. It contains a
PPP dialer. It's very good and simple. It works well with pmpop.
I think that NETDIAL is better then PPPSHARE. Simpler,
and resident size is only 59 Kbyte.
It's part of the Bobcat package. You can find here:
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/
It supports dynamic IP adress. The driver makes a BAT file:
set myip=195.8.32.147
set remip=195.8.32.7
set netmask=255.255.255.0
set peermru=1500
you can write a batch file, for example:
echo my_ip=%MYIP% > path.cfg
echo gateway=%REMIP% >> path.cfg
and the wattcp.cfg is similar to this:
include=path.cfg
netmask=255.255.255.0
nameserver=195.8.32.8
nameserver=195.8.32.7
domainslist="alarmix.net"
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By Ap (ajmberg@worldaccess.nl)
As I use the shareware Klos PPP driver I wanted to get rid of the
Escape key. Using 4DOS it was easy enough by running the following
batchfile:
c:\client32\lsl
ppp
ipstub
keystack 0 Esc Enter Enter /W700 Down Down Down Down Enter Enter ^
pppmenu
pppwat
Now the process of connecting runs automatically. 4DOS will 'press'
all the needed keys. What I have to do now is figuring out how
to trap errors and respond to them.
As you can see from the batchfile my PC is already connected to a
Novell network, and uses the client32 software. As this is a server
at home, I only use Pegasus mail for my Internet mail (this is can
be configured in Pegasus). All my mail is stored in the maildirectory
on the server. I had to change the buffers to 8 in the LSL section in
my net.cfg to reflect the extra stack
LINK SUPPORT
BUFFERS 8 1504
MEMPOOL 8192
I also use a different batchfile than the one you suggested to
read/get mail. It will now get/send the mail, and then startup
Pegasus mail. I have done thas because in Holland local calls are not
free. So the batch file looks like this:
@echo off
c:\client32\lsl
ppp
ipstub
keystack 0 Esc Enter Enter /W700 Down Down Down Down Enter Enter ^
pppmenu
pppwat
cd c:\app\pmail
scrput 24 2 white on black Now getting new mail....
pmpop -g -v
scrput 24 2 white on black Now sending new mail....
pmpop -s -v
cd c:\app\pppshare
keystack 0 Esc Enter Y Enter /W90 E Enter Enter ^ pppmenu
ipstub unload
ppp /u
c:\client32\lsl /u
cd c:\app\pmail
pmail
As you can see, the whole process now runs unattended but it needs
4DOS to perform it's magic.
By Zoltan (zbekefi@kgazd.bme.hu)
One of my friends bought an HP 700LX palmtop. He didn't like the style
of the softwares, what are used on the palmtops (I mean NetTamer for
example), he liked the PC softwares (as for example PMail), not the
15 years old Unix style.
So he asked me to install Pegasus Mail for mailing purposes onto the
palmtop. (Pmail 3.1 for does have a Hungarian language version).
The most difficult was to find a DOS PPP client. I tested two or three
of them, but neither of them was working (I tried to connect to
Compuserve, our Foray PPP server, and other ISP-s). But your advice
was good. After downloading the PPPSHARE software, it wasn't difficult
(I mean some ours) to configure the system to connect to our Foray
PPP gateway. My friend bought a PCMCIA card for the palmtop, what is a
8 Mb disk and a 14400 modem in one card. Without it the Palmtop has
only as I remember about 1.4 Mb disk capacity. And the PPPSHARE & PMail
system is nearly 1 Mb. On the PC everything was working fine.
I copied the files to the palmtop but lsl.com wasn't working. Some lsl
msg file was missing. I downloaded the latest odi driver sets from
novell.com, it contained the latest lsl.com and the msg file, too. Now
the system is working till today (and I hope it will do it in the
future, too). The mailing is working not only across the wire telephone
system, but across the GSM mobile telephone system, too (it's the common
mobile phone system in Europe). My friend uses a Nokia 2110 telephone
with the palmtop.
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