REVOBILD -- a web site for text mode and DOS Internet use
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  This is a list of directly available text and program files here.

Files ending on ".htm", "html" or ".txt" are HTML-formatted, or plain text resp. The ".zip" extension signifies a compressed file which has to be downloaded as "binary" or "image" and then to be uncompressed, or "unZIPped". The ".exe" extension signals a "selfextracting" archive, to be downloaded as binary/image and which will uncompress when run with its own filename.

ALL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE HERE OR REFERENCED ARE TO RUN UNDER *D*O*S* !

  TEXT sources and files:
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• Why it makes sense to use text mode (H.Claasen)
  
• Bill Boas's story on how he came up to, and up in speed at the net with a vintage PC-XT.
  
• Text from the Technology Toolkit of the World Bank's "Technology Forum".
  
• IBM "WebBoy" publicity - references for downloads are given in the text.
  
• WWW-History FAQ by Tim Berners-Lee, now President of the World Wide Web Consortium W3C and, together with Robert Caillau the creator of the WWW, reminding us of the basic motivation from the beginnings.
  
• Roberto Di Cosmo, reasearch institute director at the Paris Ecole Normale Superieure, about the WEB accessibility discussion and the whole approach to it: "CyberSnare":
  English version here and:
  English at this place too, or:
  the original French version.
  There is another location with orgiginals and translations here.
  
• NetAction White Paper - From Microsoft Word to Microsoft World: How Microsoft is Building a Global Monopoly, by Nathan Newman.
  
• The Freedom Forum article of 1997 on SAIC and "Network Solutions Inc.", by Chris Flash.
  
• Privatizing the Public Web, H. Claasen; the issue has been discussed at a congress at the university of Frankfurt(M) in June, 1998 for which the author's contribution can be found as this German text to download with "image" mode because it contains German language with 8-bit Umlaute (character set Code Page 437, US- or "extended" ASCII - endnotes seperately as Anmerkungen, infact a pure text file, not HTML-formatted; reason is an error in the URL named in the printed version.)
  Printed in: Drossou e.a. (eds.), Machtfragen der Informationsgesellschaft. BdWi-Verlag: Marburg 1999 ISBN 3-924684-89-8
  
• "Coal-fired PCs", on energy consumption of the information "industry": from the Forbes Mag, May'99
  
• "Burn Rate" accelerated: just in time for the California blackouts, a continuity of that Forbes article.
  
• A Comprehensive list of Indian WWW addresses where regrettably the URLs are noted text-only, not HTML "tagged" (but ReRead v4 can use it as source list.)
  
• Frederick Noronha's (e.a.) "bYtES For aLL" newsletters:
  Even all earlier postings of the "B-4-A" monthly newsletters on the Indian subcontinent's - and more generally Asian - IT development, and certainly all current ones, can be found now at their www.BytesForAll.org's own site, and it seems not necessary any more to mirror them here.
  

    DOS Program Files, and program-related texts:
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  • Now here is DOSLYNX !!!, the newest and continued development of the full Lynx running in DOS and even on the most simple PCs !!! It's arguably the best text browser ever available for use in DOS - with astonishing small footprint, excellent and fast rendering and soon - the author Fred Macall is working on it - including "secure" web connections ! It includes an FTP client and works with the WATTCP setup (see below).
    
    
  • The ultimate source for all DOS flavours is here - exciting !
    
  • The ".../~tvdog" text file overview of DOS Internet tools with the URLs mentioned there.
    
  • John Walker's concise description of available WEB browsers.
    
  • NetTamer release 1.08xt
    
  • EDTIGRP, a utility by "Zack" to edit Nettamer's newsgroups setup. This is an enconded (X-UU) zip-file, download it just as text for to decode and unzip it.
    
  • Mail Sorting utility (just 6 Kb) from Martin Goebbel
    
  • STRIP HTML mark-up from Bruce Guthrie.
    
  • BLACKBEARD, the reliable editor. Selfextracting exe file ca. 150kb
    
  • Captain Blackbeard, (zip file ca. 285kb) the advanced version of BLACKBEARD
    
  • Vedit editor (zip file ca.80kb)
    
  • E_88 editor (zip file ca.55 KB), very small and unpretentious, but "purest" and clean editor - and it needs less than 18 KB to run.
    
  • Filelink (zip file ca. 86 KB), the Caldera/DR-DOS utility for transfers between 2 PCs via serial or parallel ports. This is v.3 from OpenDOS (DR-DOS 7.0) which is free for personal, non-business use.
    
  • BGFAX v1.70 (ZIP-file ca.397k). The rather complete (shareware) package in itself.
    
  • ZFAX (ca.104k) which earlier came along free with the ZyXEL modems.
    See below for a comfortable BGFAX "shell" from REVOBILD !
    
  • NCDC v1.5 (ca.59kb) - UU-encoding/decoding, an elegant and fast UU/XX-tool
    
  • MIME/Base64 encoder/decoder (ca. 13 Kb to download).
    
  • The '386-EMULATOR for the '286-type computers to '386+ mode
    
  • IRQCHECK, a DOS utility to show which Comm-(Modem-)Ports are actually in a machine, and what IRQ they use.
    Apparently the original DOS version does not work with some Pentium(-II+?) equipped machines. Constant Brouerius van Nidek has adapted it to work with these, get a patched version here !
    
  • LOADRES (zipped distribution ca.73 KB) a "Taskswitcher" TSR of less than 6 KB mem use.
    
  • The SETMODEM program from SCM for PCMCIA PC Card modems so they can be used in DOS.
    
  • There is quite an issue with "dedicated" keyboard drivers, especially with laptops and firmware-specific such that cause havoc when used with clean DOS. So here is the ultimate and definitely cleanest thing you can get, the German-made "FreeKeyboard" utility. It comes with an excellent documentation which tells a lot about what's happening when you hack your machine.
    
  • The LADSoft-ppp packet driver for DOS.
    
  • The BobCat LYNX - A DOS TEXT browser for really small resources "SurvivalPC's", runs on '286s onward.
    
    This is John Lewis' bugfixed/adapted, (then: Apr'2000) latest version of the BOBCAT-Lynx, perhaps the smallest of them all - loads and runs fast, does its best with memory use (and wouldn't hang when there is no more), has overcome the nasty (wrong) "refresh"-tag trap of many "portals", and does a remarkable job with all WWW sites that are accessible at all for W3C-standard compliant browsers.
    
    This is a very "bare-bones" package (ZIP-file of 197 KB), just the Lynx and its configuration file. Install it in the directory where you have the packet driver and WATTCP.cfg - which is what is needed to run it.
    
    
  
    REVOBILD programs:
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  • *!* ReRead v4.92 of Oct'04 (ZIP package ca.109 KB); this ist the "compact" compiled version, together with the template configuration and other auxiliary files.
    
    Please download the description and manual separately ! These are text files of around 50 KB each with a detailed overview how to setup ReRead and how its works, and a detailed list of command keys and their functions, which are separately available too as the RR-HOWTO text file and the Key-bindings list.
    
    Recently added features are the copletely configurable keybinding of the hotkeys (the command keys used in ReRead), a versatile and flexible routine for character remapping - specific for selectable character tables (e.g., Quoted- Printable) which have been separated from the general configuration file - and much improved indexing features for mail/news  !
    
    ReRead is free for individual, non-commercial use but (c) Copyright and not "freeware".
    Plug-in list for character remapping and extensive documentation as well as support can be obtained from REVOBILD.
    Earlier users of ReRead are invited to look at this file about recent changes, a text file on such in ReRead - there had been quite some !
    
    
  • A useful addition is the Batch File to run a Lynx or HTGET for URLs grabbed with ReRead v4+. (Download as text/ASCII - just 823 bytes.)
    
  • A newly added utility to hook-in with ReRead is the "Quoted-Printable" Parser which tries to tidy up the incredible salad of wrong, missing, and superfluous linebreaks produced by many (and certainly, by all the M$-) QP-encoders; and it does the character remapping to the char set of _your_ machine and not to the (wrong, anti-standard devised) tweakings of the various "localised" Winno$ charsets often used by senders.
    
  • A versatile and rather complete package - using ReRead as off-line reader (and any good editor in addition, see above) - is this
    NETMAILing Package, (ca.180 KB zipped, in all). It bundles all the components needed for an efficient, comfortable and resources-saving handling of eMail; all the programs are available as separate downloads too, and in their respective latest edition:
    LSppp packet driver, ca. 15 KB); as there had been some reports of connectivity problems with this newest version, the Netmailing Package contains the earlier one, LSppp-v0.7
    Marc S.Ressl's NETMAIL for DOS, a DOS mail transport agent (ca. 121 KB),
    and ReRead as the offline reader and shell for lots of DOS file handling.
    The package includes too, besides of the package driver and mailer, the
    Mail-to-Netmail (M2NM-22, ca.32 Kb zip) pre-processing tool from REVOBILD, to create the right input files for Netmail, and
    Netmail-to-mailbag v.2 (NM2BAG, ca. 32 Kb) from REVOBILD, to "post-process" received mails and to re-assemble the single mail item files into mail folder(s).
    Joined too is a short text file on how to set up and arrange the package.
    All component programs are free for individual, non-commercial use but are (c) Copyright by the respective authors.
    
  • The NETBAS interpreter and applications
    
    Netmail has a serious bug which makes it choke with badly or maliciously formatted mails, and author Marc Ressl hadn't ever the time yet to improve it. So here is a good solution - use NETBAS with its AUTOPOP script. It can be placed instead of, or in parallel to, a netmail-receive line in a batch file.
    
    Here is The GETMAIL package with Martin Goebbel's NETBAS.EXE interpreter and the autopop2.NBS script to use with it for batchable downloading from a POP3 mailserver.
    A DOS packet driver is needed to use these programs.
    
    This is the NEW and improved version of NETBAS (Nov'02) which does NOT filter 8-bit chars any more and thus can now be used universally. In addition, Martin improved some internal things, and it will not choke on badly or malicious formatted files any more with downloading net things.
    You can download NETBAS here separately, together with its doc-file.
    AUTOPOP.NBS is a streamlined download script for Netbas to fetch mail from POP3 accounts. There is a comprehensive Netbas Get-Mail SCRIPT here for all sorts of connections with a POP3 server, from fully manual to all batchable ways.
    
    SPAM defence - avoid downloading spam from POP3 server: Here is a script to run with NETBAS, further developed from the earlier GET-MAIL.nbs, AUTOPOP.nbs, rev. February 2005 - it downloads headers and some first lines of mail items stored at a POP3 mailbox, allows to review and sort them out offline, and with a subsequent connection to the server gets only the wanted mails, and deletes all the spam.
    This is quite an economical way to save connection fees and bandwidth.
    In difference to IMAP and most other fetchmail-agents, filtering or selection is not done online, and a bare minimum of information needs to be downloaded actually: just the mail header and one first line from the content body (or any number of lines to be defined in the configuration). Thus Spam and all unwanted mail with mega-attachments is deleted directly at the server.
    As this is only a script for NETBAS, together with an explanation how to fine-tune it, you need to get the the NETBAS interpreter - and a dialler/packet driver to run that one - separately.
    
    The Bag2date helper is of use in batch files. It copies or appends mailbags - the streams of mail items as received with Netbas/Autopop (or Nettamer, or Netscape) - into a name-and-date stamped file, to somewhere else on the disk if wanted.
    This is a shortened and simplified version of the Netmail-to-Mailbag utility (which is to be used with heaps of single-item mail files; see above) and it cannot remap char.s (yet).
    
  • A very compact Netmail_Pro package (88 Kb ZIP) with David Colston's Netmail_Pro v.1.04(64 KP ZIP), a shareware program, is to be found here and contains the above mentioned pre- and post-processors for outgoing and incoming mails too (though in earlier versions).
    
  • The WWW-page-GETTER package -- a fast and small setup to get WWW-pages: to write the command line for HTGET - one of the parts of the parcel -, for instance. Also included are Netdial to connect with a packet driver - DosPPPD, included -, the text/clipboard lister LISTURLS to grab URL-names from a text file and to launch HTGET with the correct target syntax, HLIST for a quick view of received HTML-pages, and small utilities (Holdit, Renamer); all with documentation. Total package ca.285 KB.
    
    *!*ReRead v4.x can now be used instead of LISTURLS in the same setup.
    
  • LISTURLS separately (38 KB). As ReRead has the same functionality by now, it may be obsolete but LISTURLS has very small footprint and may thus serve easily as a plug-in elsewhere.
    
  • ZFXSHELL, a frontend for use of BGFAX, together with either BGfax' conversion utility for text files, or with ZyXel's ZFax conversion utility. Integrates all of them with a faxphones list to form a stand-alone fax service. Broadcast as well as multi-file faxes. Revised Jan'01.
    
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