>For a couple of years I have had good success using Yarn (OS/2 and DOS
>versions) to download and process news and mail. I use filters to sort
>the mail into pseudo news groups, as described in the documentation. I
>have been using a shell account and my ISP's uqwk commands.
That's how I started. :-)
>Now my ISP is abandoning shell accounts and offers Dynamic PPP instead.
>Other ISPs rarely offer shell accounts, and I am now asking you whether
>it is possible to use Yarn without one, and just how. For example, can I
>connect with a dialling program like Warp's DOIP and then invoke a
>reconfigured Yarn? Many thanks for your comments.
On the OS/2 side, ou'll want to use a new-sucking program like Souper
or VSoup, which perform about the same function that uqwk did (sort of,
anyway). They don't create a packet, but they DO create the various
.MSG files and the AREAS file which you can directly inport into Yarn.
http://www.vex.net/yarn/archive/souper16.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/suite/vsoup128.zip
For DOS, UKA_PPP might be a workable solution. I use it to dial into
my ISP here, but I've not configured it for Yarn because I don't use
Yarn in DOS (or DOS itself) much at all anymore.
http://mvmpc9.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/public/uka_ppp/
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