Category : Information about the Internet from the early 1990's
Archive : SLIP_DOS.ZIP
Filename : MINUET.HIS
Output of file : MINUET.HIS contained in archive : SLIP_DOS.ZIP
Most functions can be interrupted with Ctrl-Break (or Ctrl-Shift).
Minuet responds to Ident requests. Results in faster connections to some
servers.
About 90k more memory available.
Speeded up network thruput.
FTP dialog boxes make more sense.
FTP works with long file names.
Aliases can be inserted into any field (with Alt-A).
Fixed several Alias related crashes.
Composer To: fields can hold up to 64k of text.
News fetches are much faster.
Fetches news for 2 minutes instead of 30 seconds.
Disk is written to less often.
Telnet doesnt hang after connection closes.
Name lookups work better.
Printing works better.
Other computer can control printer in Telnet.
Ping works better.
Fixed many other small bugs.
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/