Hi Matt, 1/4

About "LSPPPDlr 2003" of December 7:

I checked out your site, and I sort of am 'getting it'.

The site's main purpose is to keep references and archives handy...

...this may be a little too much of an ambitious project for me...

Ambitious? What about trying to use `RLFossil' via Glenn's setup?!

I grabbed IVT for DOS... ...it seems to require PC/TCP...

...the `IVT' receipie may never be fully explained...

Is it just 'hopeless' to try to aquire PC/TCP?

I'd be quite surprized if it could be found even on a Russian Warez
site! I suppose a used "real-mode" 16-Bits DOS-compatible package might
be accumulating dust somewhere, but will the diskettes still be OKay?...

I tried to get `IVT's source-code published and it didn't work, nor
does it seem probable that Ruurd will make it `Waterloo TCP'-compatible;
there were some LEGACY DOS BBSers who once believed ~TelNet~/`ZMoDem' is
out of reach so, `IVT' helped to fight pre-conceptions in those days but
i know no other users like me who experienced it (and much less SysOps).

...I'm not sure exactly where to unzip everything...

I hesitate to override the directives i published.

You say to use pkunzip with the -d option to unzip to the c:\ prompt
and it will unzip the necessary files to c:\ppp and I'll try that.

Since you have `MS-Kermit' working i decided to capture my page, to publish it here so that you can print/comment it before a retry. It's a partially reformated screen-dump (from telnet://guest.sailor.lib.md.us):

---------------[ http://public.sogetel.net/bicephale/eng/2k3updat.htm ]-
LSPPPDlr 2003 UpDate


Quebec | Contact | Any Browser Campaign | English/French | Canada
| E-Mail, IM | Any browser will do! | Version Francaise |

Up-Date, File list (2003)

Get `PK250DOS.EXE' from ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/sdc/dos/, then
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`----> [ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/sdc/dos/PK250DOS.EXE]

move to a declared path where to unZip `PKUnZip' with accompanying files (C:\DOS\ or C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ is usually a good choice in such cases); another tool which can be handy from now on is Vernon D. Buerg's `List':

http://www.buerg.com/downloads/ (Don't skip that one!)
list94a.zip -> [http://www.buerg.com/downloads/list94a.zip]
listeval.zip -> [http://www.buerg.com/downloads/listeval.zip]
7-29> listplus.zip -> [http://www.buerg.com/downloads/listplus.zip]

Among the tasks to perform one is to reserve enough DOS Environment
space for DOS INet variables in `Config.SYS', in addition to this have a
couple lines added to load `TDsk.EXE' (i mean to load it -= TWICE =-)...
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.------------------'
|---> [http://cyberside.dyn.ee/files/dos/ramdisk/tdsk23.zip]
(It's BETA) `-> [http://cyberside.dyn.ee/files/dos/ramdisk/tdsk242b.zip]
^
`Config.SYS' is where `ComSpec' can also be redefined, when needed.

Next comes `LSPPPDlr 2003 Up-Date', based on my "GlueWare" concept:
i.e. mostly only files i authored are included in the package except for
a few _rare_ situations. If you haven't toyed with my previous material
yet be prepared to manage with a few DOS operations such as altering the
system configuration (to raise the size of your DOS environment space or
to declare new paths), as unarchiving and installing 3rd-party ShareWare
and/or FreeWare (necessary for my GlueWare to work at all). At the core
of `LSPPPDlr' there are two things, one batch-file (which sets different
DOS environment variable groups) combined to `{Commo}' custom .MAC/.SET/
.FON (Macro-language code, Configuration and Dialing Directory) files...

There's no middle option, work thru the above or simply quit; what `Config.SYS' should include is a line similar to one of these two below:

Shell=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:3072 /P
- or -
Shell=C:\DOS\ShellMax.COM /R- C:\Command.COM C:\ /E:3072 /P
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`-> [ftp://juge.com/file/ibmutil/DOSMAX21.ZIP]

It's simple enough to ensure that basic requirements as this can be
met, in the second case `DOSMax.EXE' is running on DOS versions previous
to that of `Win 98' (i.e. before `MS-DOS v7.x'). Under `Win 98', a nice device-driver update to have is `EMM386' from `MS-DOS v8.00'/`Win ME' or
maybe that from DR-DOS v7.03; as parameters to one of these i recommend
"NoEMS RAM Auto D=64" or "NoEMS RAM Auto DMA=64" respectively, depending
on selected device-drivers. Two "DeviceHigh=C:\DOS\TDsk.EXE" lines will install the ~RAMDrives~ required for extended features of `LSPPPDlr' (it
is how sensitive UserName/PassWord data can be protected)... The latest
`TDsk v2.42' driver is 8088+ compatible but forces `Win 32' systems back
to "Compatibility Mode"; under those systems the declared path where my GlueWare is copied will read as "DeviceHigh=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\TDsk.EXE"
when using `Win 98'... I'll check my old `Config.SYS' file and show how `ComSpec' is supposed to be modified from there.

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