Re: Successful Tests!

[Mark Alexander Davis-Craig]

We tried WinQVTNet 3.8.  That version is alleged to have problems with
Winsock and we were advised to downgrade to 3.6.  The Winsock version
of Cello, the Windows client for World-wide-web should be announced today
and I said we'd test that.

I'd say Gale and I had a fun, productive afternoon Friday.

> From:    Gale Boyajian <Gale@uismsmail.uis.itd.umich.edu>
> To:      d-nas <d-nas@umich.edu>

> 
> 
> FYI   -   Mark Davis-Craig and I experienced a few successes last
> Friday using a Windows gopher client and 2 different News clients
> over a PPP connection.  I thought you all may like to try out
> some of these client applications so am passing on this info.
> 
> 
> Using PC/TCP we activated a PPP session with the NAS.
> 
> Connected to the anonymous FTP site, sunsite.unc.edu, and
> transferred the following files from the directory
> /pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps.
> 
>   wt_wsk.zip
>   hgopher2.2.zip
>   winwais21.zip
>   winvnstd.zip
> 
> Moved the above files to a subdirectory of the Windows directory
> and unzipped them.
> 
> Moved the winsock.dll file from the PC/TCP directory to the
> WIndows directory.
> 
> Created an IPClient Application group and installed
> the above applications in it.  We ended up with
> 
>   1 gopher client (Gopher)
>   2 news clients  (Trumpet and WINVN)
>   1 wais client   (WinWais2.1)
> 
> The gopher and news clients ran first time out.  We still have
> not been able to get the WinWais client to work.
> 
> Mark D-C, did I miss anything?
> 
> 
> ....gale
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