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From: khweis@mvmpc9.ciw.uni-Karlsruhe.de (Karl-Heinz Weiss)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: UKA_PPP 1.6x4

                           UKA_PPP 1.6x4
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UKA_PPP is a script controlled news- and mail transportagent for DOS.
It's useful if you have direct or dialup IP access to the internet and 
if you wish is to read mail and news offline. UKA_PPP runs fine with any
"SOUP" compliant OLR (e.g. Chin Huang's YARN) or with Peter Mandrella's 
CROSSPOINT, a German multipurpose "Point" frontend. CROSSPOINT is
supported by a special script which is executed time controlled
or manually, using CROSSPOINT's "Netcall" mechanism. 

New compared to Vers. 1.5x
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   - new, stable ppp driver from Antonio Lopez (dospppd)
   - isdn fully supported
   - multiprovider capable
   - automatic download and setup of external programs via http.
     Yarn, Crosspoint, DosLynx and Minuet fully supported.
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From the uka_ppp 1.5 announcement
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- Simple setup. Login scripts created automaticallly.
- Simple switching between multiple configurations
- Automatic or manual dialup and login. 
- send mail (SMTP protocol)
- get mail (POP3 protocol)
- send and receive usenet news (NNTP protocol). Automatic update of 
  grouplists. Fast download: about 2000-2500cps (linespeed 14400 bps). 
- pack and unpack SOUP packets, fire up your offline reader
  or any other DOS program, timed execution of programs ...
- script programmable ftp and telnet client included.

I'll upload UKA_PPP 1.6x4 to SimTel in the next days. 

In any case you'll find UKA_PPP on my homesite:

http://mvmpc9.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/public/uka_ppp/uka16x4.exe
ftp://mvmpc9.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/uka_ppp/uka16x4.exe

UKA_PPP is Freeware (free for noncommercial use only). Sources are
avaiable from my server in the ukaslip\src dir.

Enjoy!                                                         28JUL97
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Karl-Heinz Weiss, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Email: Karl-Heinz.Weiss@mvmpc9.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de