Subj : Why 6.x?
To   : Wayne Chirnside
From : Ed Vance
Date : Thu Apr 19 2001 07:13 am

WC> EV> On this Win3.1 machine my NETSCAPE.INI says: Mozilla=Good-3.01

WC> No reason not to upgrade to 4.08 Communicator that has
WC> a HTML editor with tools, if you've 47 Megs. HD space to spare.
WC> I only have a 14,400 modem so I just started the download,
WC> closed Netscape and the download continued until complete
WC> than it hung up while I slept.
WC> I haven't used Composer extensively but have played with it,
WC> it's pretty cool.  I've used both DUT 3.01 and all of the 4.0
WC> series, some are not stable, 4.08 is.

When I started using a ISP, their software installed IE 2.0 w/Dialer for Win 
3.1.

My friend found N16E12N.EXE in the ISP's Files Section and installed it for me.

Later on I got NS Navigator 3.01 from the net and installed it. I also grabbed 
IE 3.0 and use it WHEN I HAVE TO.

I can't find the 3.01 d/l, but I have found a copy of N16E304P.EXE in the 
computer shack.

It looks like I never upgraded to 3.04 tho.

I checked the file dates in the NS directory against the d/l file date of the 
NS 3.04 file, and saw I grabbed the 304 file at a much later date.

I suppose 3.01 was working so good I didn't want to try upgrading it.

When I got a laptop with W95 on it I asked here and was told to use 32-bit 
Communicator 4.08.
I was surprised to find out that Mail wasn't included in the Base version.
So I started using Eudora for my mail on the laptop.

Some time later I d/l 32-bit Comm 4.75 Base and noticed that Mail was put back 
into the browser.

As I said in my earlier messages, I lost 4.75 when the Service Dept. put a new 
HD in the laptop.
So I'm back to using 4.08 again.

BTW - I started a d/l of Comm 4.76 Complete the other morning, and after one 
hour of a 2 hour session I got a DISK FULL Error Msg. (My modem is 28K)

I use NetZero and I guess it uses more space than I thought it did.

Yep, the HD only has 40-50mb free at start up.

I'll try again another day, but this time I think I'll go back to the Comm 4.75 
Base that I had previously used.

That is, unless someone here tells me that 4.76 is much better than 4.75.     
;)

Above you mentioned 4.08 has a HTML Editor with Tools. I prefer writing email 
in plain old ASCII Text. I use Juno on this W3.1 pc and receive email all the 
time in HTML. Of course Junos 16 bit version is Text Only so I go ahead and 
read the message, skipping over the =20's here and there.

I check Juno on the W95 machine a couple of times a month, just in case someone 
sent me a message with a Attachment, so I can keep the mailbox cleared out. 
Juno will accept those kinds of messages for me, but they won't send them to a 
W3.1 user.

Juno for W95 lets me read those pretty HTML crafted messages and receive 
Attachments too.

I hope I haven't confused You and the Others here with my switching back and 
forth from 16 bit and 32 bit NS software.

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