[790] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: OS2/ Warp and ethernet.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abram Dancy)
Tue Jan 9 17:59:06 1996
Reply-To: abester@power-proc.mit.edu
To: kiesel@MIT.EDU
Cc: os2partners@MIT.EDU, abester@power-proc.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:32:29 EST."
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:58:10 -0500
From: Abram Dancy <abester@power-proc.mit.edu>
I can't really comment on receiving E-mail on a PC. My impression was that
you had to leave the machine on all the time (and on the network) if you wanted to have email directed to your PC. I log into my Sun workstation from my
Warp PC to read my mail.
Do you have a network card or a modem? I assume you must have some sort of
(PCMCIA? 755 is a laptop, right?) network card. If this is the case, then
to access the network you have some options:
1. Use Warp Connect. Network access is built in. You will be able to use
the Internet Access Kit (includes telnet, ftp, www, gopher, mail program) inc
included with Warp.
2. Use LAN Workplace for OS/2. This is probably what is on the disks the
person who set up the computer gave you. This allows you to run Windows
network programs from OS/2. (At least that's my impression.) It may come
with OS/2 native ftp, telnet, ping programs.
3. If you don't have Warp Connect, you can use FreeTCP. Warp has TCP/IP
support built in, but was made for internet access from modems. FreeTCP
includes drivers for network cards which allow you to get at the network
from regular Warp. This is of perhaps dubious legality because it requires
you to use a piece of an IBM product which was made publically available as
part of a bug-fix. (The IBM product is TCP/IP 2.0. TCP/IP 3.0 is included
in Warp Connect.) I have used this and it works well for telnet, ftp, www.
However, since I am not sure if it violates the law, I do not feel I can
recommend it. For more info, see http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/freetcp.html.
Warp Connect is the best option. If this is not the version of Warp you have,
it costs between $80-$200 (depends on particular version you buy). I believe
it only comes on CD, though. It is possible to install it from another
computer on the network, or to make diskette images from the CD.
Good luck. Hopefully others on the list will give you more info than I
have been able to.
Abram
