Subj : 1/4 - LSPPPDlr 2003
To   : MATT GILBERT
From : MICHEL SAMSON
Date : Wed Dec 08 2004 08:54 am

Hi Matt,                                                             1/4

    About "LSPPPDlr 2003" of December 7:

MG> I checked out your site, and I sort of am 'getting it'.
MS> The site's main purpose is to keep references and archives handy...
MG> ...this may be a little too much of an ambitious project for me...

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

MG> I grabbed IVT for DOS...  ...it seems to require PC/TCP...
MS> ...the `IVT' receipie may never be fully explained...
MG> 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).

MG> ...I'm not sure exactly where to unzip everything...
MS> I hesitate to override the directives i published.
MG> You say to use pkunzip with the -d option to unzip to the c:\ prompt
MG> 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


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                        Up-Date, File list (2003)

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