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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL {LONG SUMMARY} ***
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <Bzoxrw.GM5@demon.co.uk> <g7X8VB14w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:35:02 GMT
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- In article <g7X8VB14w165w@zswamp.UUCP> geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
- : I'm willing to bet that IP also has a higher ease*cost constant for DOS
- :users (of which, unfortunately, I am still one). For instance, does anyone
- :know if there's some way to get IP to live under my DesqView and be accessible
- :from tasks running under DV? Sure, I could buy DV/X, which is (1) more
- :expensive than DV/386; (2) more memory hungry, which I can afford even less;
- :(3) TCP/IP-oriented (e.g. has anyone used DV/X with SLIP or PPP?)
-
- I'm told ka9q runs happily under a DOS window. (I can't swear to that
- because I don't use Windows myself). I'd assume it would be as good or
- better under DV. Also I'm not sure what's all in 'standard' ka9q - the
- one I use is a derivative supported (under licence) by my internet
- provider. It's pretty damn good though.
-
- G
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