Re: Souper vs. "doing it the old-fashioned way"
A.R. & F.L. Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@peak.org)
Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:42:58 -0800
In article <i1smyI36vWcK088yn@netcom.com>,
jcperez@netcom.com (Julio C. Perez) wrote:
> 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?
"SOUP" is a file format (Simple Offline Usenet Packet), which the yarn
import program reads. "Souper" is a freeware program that can fetch news
and mail and place over a PPP connection and put it into soup format for
yarn to use.