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  Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2018-06-11 12:40 -0300
    Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-11 14:27 -0400
      Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2018-06-11 18:38 +0000
        Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-11 17:54 -0400
          Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-06-11 23:40 +0000
          Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2018-06-12 09:11 +0000
            Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2018-06-12 18:48 +0100
      Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2018-06-12 11:22 +0300
      Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2018-06-12 23:12 +0000

#16076 — Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released

Download:
http://www.pmail.com/downloads_s3_t.htm

Changelogs:
http://www.pmail.com/v47x.htm

(this is for the guys and gals that still use it re Slashdot asks:
what's your favorite email client?)
	;)
	[]'s
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#16078

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:40:09 -0300
Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:

> Download:
> http://www.pmail.com/downloads_s3_t.htm
> 
> Changelogs:
> http://www.pmail.com/v47x.htm
> 
> (this is for the guys and gals that still use it re Slashdot asks:
> what's your favorite email client?)


I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting
endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.

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#16080

On 2018-06-11, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:40:09 -0300
> Shadow <Sh@dow.br> wrote:
>
>> Download:
>> http://www.pmail.com/downloads_s3_t.htm
>> 
>> Changelogs:
>> http://www.pmail.com/v47x.htm
>> 
>> (this is for the guys and gals that still use it re Slashdot asks:
>> what's your favorite email client?)
>
>
> I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
> impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting
> endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.

It's how I started. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q


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#16082

On 11 Jun 2018 18:38:16 GMT
Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> > I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
> > impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting
> > endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.
> 
> It's how I started. 
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q

Hell, it's probably how a lot of us started.  Interestingly, I hadn't
heard of KA9Q before - thought Trumpet Winsock was the only option.
Looks like you use it for a SLIP connection.  How would that work:
serial line to your 300 baud acoustic coupler modem and a SLIP
connection agreement to your university (since that would predate ISPs)?

Was just thinking it would be cool to give this a try, but the reality
is I'm happy enough at a console with mutt and linux/freebsd.  Would be
hard to justify leaving that environment for anything other than
nostalgia.  

That said, let the hypocricy show: someone gets online with a C64 and I
think it's the coolest thing ever.  Not sure what the mental watershed is.

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#16083

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:54:37 -0400, RS Wood wrote:

> On 11 Jun 2018 18:38:16 GMT Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> > I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
>> > impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an
>> > interesting endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.
>> 
>> It's how I started.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q
> 
> Hell, it's probably how a lot of us started.  Interestingly, I hadn't
> heard of KA9Q before - thought Trumpet Winsock was the only option.

This wasn't for Windows - it was for DOS.

> Looks like you use it for a SLIP connection.  How would that work:
> serial line to your 300 baud acoustic coupler modem and a SLIP
> connection agreement to your university (since that would predate ISPs)?

No, there was an ISP. Demon Internet, as I recall.

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Internet

-- 
Using UNIX since v6 (1975)...

Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
 http://www.mirrorservice.org

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#16085

On 2018-06-11, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On 11 Jun 2018 18:38:16 GMT
> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> > I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
>> > impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting
>> > endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.
>> 
>> It's how I started. 
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q
>
> Hell, it's probably how a lot of us started.  Interestingly, I hadn't
> heard of KA9Q before - thought Trumpet Winsock was the only option.

KA9Q runs under *DOS*.

> Looks like you use it for a SLIP connection.  How would that work:
> serial line to your 300 baud acoustic coupler modem and a SLIP
> connection agreement to your university (since that would predate ISPs)?

If you'd read the link, you'd see that there was a UK ISP in the very
early days that recommended KA9Q as its connection software. IIRC, it
worked very well.

-- 
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        Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

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#16088

On 12/06/18 10:11, Huge wrote:
> On 2018-06-11, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> On 11 Jun 2018 18:38:16 GMT
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
>>>> impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting
>>>> endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.
>>>
>>> It's how I started.
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q
>>
>> Hell, it's probably how a lot of us started.  Interestingly, I hadn't
>> heard of KA9Q before - thought Trumpet Winsock was the only option.
> 
> KA9Q runs under *DOS*.
> 
>> Looks like you use it for a SLIP connection.  How would that work:
>> serial line to your 300 baud acoustic coupler modem and a SLIP
>> connection agreement to your university (since that would predate ISPs)?
> 
> If you'd read the link, you'd see that there was a UK ISP in the very
> early days that recommended KA9Q as its connection software. IIRC, it
> worked very well.
> 

Yup,

I got my first copy of KA9Q on a 3.5" floppy disc attached to the front 
of a UK "What Net" magazine, with articles in that written mostly by a 
friend of mine. Got me started on Demon, reading newsgroups, and 
trawling around FTP sites. 14.4kbps modem was, well - I didn't know faster.

Lots of that for me now long forgotten, but yup was all text mode DOS 
stuff.

Someone should do a retro youtube vid on KA9Q/DOS internet, it would be 
more entertaining than the "kids react to the wheel" genre that is 
overdone out there.

-- 
Adrian C

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#16084

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
> impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting
> endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.

I have a vague memory of loading some packet driver, dialing in with
kermit, setting up IP addresses somehow with slip and then it was
possible to use NCSA Telnet which handily also included an FTP
server. So compared to just dialing in for a terminal session, I could
chat on IRC while sending or receiving files with FTP.

This was in 1991 with a 2400 bps modem.

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#16089

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 
> I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS.  Wow, that's
> impressive.  Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting
> endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure.

I was going to post a link to the DOS Ain't Dead Forum, where a lot
of recent DOS releases, including internet software, are announced.

However, umm, the link's dead...

Seemingly for maintenance though, so maybe it will be back.
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum.php

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