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Re: Amosaic/AWeb won't work, please help!

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From: John S. Burger
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 10:19
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On or about 04-Apr-96 00:17:36 Jim Shaffer, Jr. typed the following words
about "Re: Amosaic/AWeb won't work, please help!".  My reply is thus...

 Hi Jim,


 JSJ> In article
 JSJ> <Pine.SOL.3.90.960402214037.27831A-100000@terminus.intermind.net> The
 JSJ> Hozzyfers <krystal@terminus.intermind.net> writes:
>> Got AMITCP to work, works great.  Using PPP, can get GUI-FTP to work
>> (Great program too) Have MUI3.0. All the correct datatypes.
>>
>> But neither AMosaic or Aweb will work.  Both say they can't contact the URL
>> I type.  Look long and hard for this answer...but to no avial.

 JSJ> I used to have that problem.  Also, I couldn't post mail or news.  But
 JSJ> ftp, telnet, gopher, pop, and receiving news worked fine.  Eventually I
 JSJ> set my MTU to some ludicrously small value (determined with much poking
 JSJ> with
 JSJ> 'ping -s') and everything worked fine.  (With the evaluation version of
 JSJ> PPP, this involves a binary file editor -- and it also only worked with
 JSJ> version
 JSJ> 1.30; patching newer evaluation versions resulted in them not running.)

Jeesh, why don't you register ppp.device. Holger probably wasted time coding
newer versions of ppp.device so people like you can't hack it. The registered
version is *ONLY* $15. If Holger stops developing ppp.device, then what? His
is the only one that I know of.

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Subject: Re: Amosaic/AWeb won't work, please help!
Date: 08 Apr 96 15:19:53 +0500
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