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Re: OASIS: forgetting smtp gateway

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From: Guy Harrison
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 00:00
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 In article <822926412_OASIS_@nanonano.demon.co.uk>
  scotty@nanonano.demon.co.uk (Scott Green) said:-

>Hi,
>
>Sometimes when I try and log-on to the internet using OASIS 1.35, it 
>says cannot find address for post.demon.co.uk. Then when I look in 
>DOMAIN.TXT I see that it has been removed and I have to add the 
>address back in.

Domain.txt?

>I know the solution to this is to add the full address to the 
>STARTUP.NOS file so that it looks like this:-
>smtp gateway 158.152.1.65

The gateway is now 158.152.1.72

>The only problem is that when I do this it seems to log-in without showing
>you the login sequence, like entering password,etc, which is
>a pain as you don't know when things go wrong.

Remove "dial.scr" from STARTUP.NOS and assign it to a function key. 
You get to see the logon process that way.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk

  
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Subject: Re: OASIS: forgetting smtp gateway
Date: 1996/01/28
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