Re: re Opera and other mostly extraneous matters

["Paul Breeze" paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Wolfgang

I have played briefly with 98Lite and found it useful. From what I could
understand of the documentation that accompanied it, and the setup
procedure, it is possible to use Win98 but revert to the Win95 desktop
explorer. That option might offer the best of all possible worlds. ( I
will try this as soon as my son returns my Win95 disk!)


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Subject: re Opera and other mostly extraneous matters


> ≪ I am anxious to know how do configure the Opera e-mail
> and web browser to be able to locate the remote web server.
> This is the message what comes up when I load it. ≫
> --"Morris Krok" 
>
> Hi, Morris. If someone else has responded and I missed it,
> sorry for redundance:
>
> First, Opera has very limited email capability. If you
> want to use it for that purpose you need to configure it
> for an external email client.
>
> Since my experience with gui browsers is confined to
> Opera and the slowly maturing Amaya, I don't know how
> other browsers work, but when you click on a link for
> a file that's not on your own machine, Opera doesn't
> connect to the Internet; instead it issues the message
> you quote. You must get online first.
>
> If you run into trouble doing that with a dial-up connection
> from a stand-alone win95 machine, I enthusiastically
> recommend NetLaunch http://www.blackcastlesoft.com/,
> a DUN utility that's remarkably obscure considering
> that--unlike all other such solutions I've come across--
> NetLaunch is like one of those perfect little dos
> utilities, totally transparent, totally effective. ...
>
> As for 98Lite, when the developer announced it Brian
> Livingston, co-author of the biblical Windows Secrets books
> (thank you, Dorothy), devoted four consecutive InfoWorld
> columns to the topic and a Redmond thug eventually chimed
> in. The Lite procedure in fact has also figured in the
> antitrust trial. The crux seems to be that you can excise
> the MSIE files, but MSIE hooks in the kernel persist.
> Since I intend never to use a Windows thus burdened
> I expect win95 to be my xyWrite 3 of Windows releases--
> the one I'll use forever. Luckily, NetLaunch cured
> the only trouble I ever had with win95. The two or
> three blue screens of death I've seen have occurred
> after I've made a mistake that also would have corrupted
> dos protected memory too. ...
>
> xyWrite users who are not similarly resistant to
> MSIE-infested Windows upgrades apparently can rest
> a little easier about the threatened winy2k removal
> of dos services. The relevant parts of dosNB diehard
> Paul Andrews' Seattle Times column on the topic are
> quoted on my home page (url in my sig). (Incongruously,
> Andrews wrote a book that reportedly presents without
> irony the MS worldview.) ...
>
> And, finally, also anent the MS worldview: Guess James
> Fallows didn't learn xpl when he used xyWrite. His account
> http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/02/002fallows.htm
> of his six months in Redmond trying to make Word fit
> for writers is at the Atlantic site. ... Ciao. --a
>
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