Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/02/20/12:46:32
from my earlier post >> and Doug Kaufman > :
> >uploads/downloads. But X_MAILN from UKA_PPP 1.7x2 gives Unexpected server
> >response with my ISP, so I copied X_MAILN from the previous version, to a
> >slightly different name, X_MAILN1.EXE, and the .BAT file that invokes it is
> >X_MAIL1.BAT.
> Have you reported the problem to Karl-Heiz Weiss, the author of UKA_PPP?
> >Why should a command-line SMTP mailer have to be real mode as opposed to DJGPP?
> My comment was that TCPPORT had to be real mode. I don't understand
> why, but this is explicitly stated in the code. See tcpport.c in the
> WATT-32 distribution. Perhaps Erick Engelke or Gisle Vanem could
> answer this question for you.
I haven't reported the problem to Karl-Heinz Weiss yet, figured UKA_PPP, and
COMTOOL, which is included in Arachne package for DOS (http://arachne.cz), were
not going to be developed any further. Should I? COMTOOL is a simple serial
and modem-testing program, worked with my old modem (Diamond SupraExpress 56i
jumpered for COM4 (base 0x2e8) IRQ 5) but not with the USRobotics 2976 PCI
hardware modem in the new computer, base address = 0xd400, IRQ 11. TCPPORT
sometimes didn't work with hostnames, even when it would work with IP addresses.
I was even able to get the IP address with OS/2 TRACERTE or WATT-32 TRACERT and
then use the IP address thus obtained with TCPPORT for the mail and news
programs.
For using UKA_PPP mail and news prgrams in connection with DJGPP port of Lynx,
it might be helpful to make these programs work with a unified WATTCP.CFG
format, rather than a UKA_PPP-special version of WATTCP.CFG.
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