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[gotmilk]

re: a DOS browser to use on my "new" 386

That abandoned box i found and decided to give it a home
next to my 486 is doing quite well in a slow motion way :o)

Really only has 2 Megs of memory.

Even if i got an old AOL running on top of Windows,
it would be too close to slow to know if its just slow :o)

So, loaded
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Arachne was the best one I ever tried.
http://home.arachne.cz
I have not used it in years, so it must be better now.

Ya'up, ARCHN170.EXE latest and greatest and easy to install.

But it needs during setup the IP address i'll use using AOL,
but AOL creates it on-the-fly as i startup AOL, so i no have it.

Called AOL tech and man said that just released AOL 9.x
that will use a static one versus dynamic mode now in use.

I'am not clear on what i just said since the DOS browser
wants that IP number, which is available in an AOL version
i can'r run under Windows 3.1, but all i want is the browser
to gain access to the internet, not run any AOL software.

Like right now i'am running my Opera browser that obtained
that IP number i got once AOL was running, and to me "here"
no AOL software is being used, as i think i'am just running
the Opera software directly into AOL's IP number that opens
into the internet. I bet BobZ could teach me this stuff.

Guess i'am guessing that if i had AOL 9.x on Windows XP
and as the man stated, i could get that IP number using
a new feature in it that not in other AOLs, that if the DOS
in Windows XP is supported by the Arachne DOS browser
that i could install it using the current IP number in use,
and i guess these asks a Question: Can you run more than
one browser at the same time on the same machine.
Like run IE and Opera both having windows open into the web?
If yes then i can do it that way, but i really just want to get it
on the 386 that can't even run AOL.

Maybe i'll try a free 2 week trial of an IP that has a static number,
and just see what happens, then cancel the service. (Sleezy me)

Gosh. amazing the things one can ponder doing stuff that makes
no sense or reason or needed :o)

Like climbing a mountain "because its there" :o)

Especially when i'll muddy the muddy water by saying that
what i said above about AOL has a logic fault (i think)
as i think i did not understand correctlt what the AOL tech man
told me, in that i think each AOL login gets me a new IP number,
not the same one to be used always on my account, and that
the new feature is to allow me to obtain that number when running
the AOL, and it changes each time i login, thus not static.
But if it is static and my account is assigned an IP number
that I can obtain using AOL 9.x, then i can take that to the 386.

D:oug