Souper vs. "doing it the old-fashioned way"

Bryan Thorp (bthorp@wimsey.bc.ca)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:31:29 -0800

I've been using Yarn for over 2 years now and have been pretty
happy with Chin's product. Recently, my ISP was gobbled up by a
larger outfit and there was a period where it looked like they
were going to discontinue Unix shell access totally. At the time
I investigated Souper, got it working and so on but never put
into daily use as the new ISP decided to continue shell access
for existing customers. So I can still get to the shell. :-)

One thing I didn't complete was steamlining my PPP/Winsock/Souper
setup. I found it was more effort on my part collecting
mail/news with Souper than with the uqwk method. With uqwk, I
can drive the entire dial-in, login, collection, *and* logout
with one double-click on my WFWG 3.11 icon. With Souper I found
that my actual login time was longer as I simetimes forgot to
disconnect my session. Has anyone got a nice and elegant setup
for PPP/Winsock/Souper?

For those of us *still* using a comm program (Telix, ProComm, et.
al.) to drive uqwk at the Unix command line, what does a program
like Souper buy us?

Although I plan to stick with the uqwk method for now, it would
be good to know how to setup the PPP/Winsock/Souper method more
elegantly than I achieved in my trial. It also appears that ISP
shell access is disappearing from the landscape; if this is true
I'd like to be in a position to quickly switch collection
methods.

bryan
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