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

Julio C. Perez (jcperez@netcom.com)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:58:42 -0500

This is great! I've returned to this list in desperation and find
that... there is a thread that addresses my concern.
Since the summer, I've been moving all my activities to Win 3.11.
I've found nothing in that universe that can accomplish what I can do with
Telix and Yarns/YES. I've tried Agent, Eudora and Procomm for Windows 3.0
and none came close. I too have been using Yarn in the old-fashioned way
but now I have to drop my UNIX shell account and stick to my PPP account.
I've come back here to look for a way to do this. Here is what I've learned
from this thread, please correct me if I got it wrong:

* I can continue to use Yarn in DOS or a DOS window if I use SOUP
or SOUPER to get my mail/news to and from the PPP account.

* This method appears to work slower than UQWK in a shell account.

Right now, I connect to my PPP account using Netcruiser. I then
minimize this app and launch Netscape to splash around the web. It sounds
like all I need to do is launch SOUP or SOUPER (what is the difference?)
and let it do its thing. When done, I can shut down all that gui stuff
and run Yarnx under DOS... like I've always done! I know that the devil
is in the details, but is this general outline correct?

-- 
	Julio C. Perez <jcperez@netcom.com>
 Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer 
to the Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who 
       insist that there is no such thing as progress. [Ransom L. Ferm]
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