Re: Please help me with Opera!!!

At 12:46 PM 1/16/99 -0800, Niners Rock wrote:
>Hi. I currently have MSIE 3.02a and I downloaded Opera 3.50 Final. I
>have a 486SX computer with 8 megs of RAM and running Windows 3.1 . I
>installed Opera and then I tried to get online and it said that it
>couldn't connect to the ISP or something. Because Opera doesn't have a
>dialup package like MSIE (TCP/IP) I have no way of connecting to my
>ISP. Also, I don't have any kind of dialer package. If anyone has
>Opera and knows how to connect to an ISP, please help me solve this
>problem. PLEASE HELP ME if you know how to do this.

If you're running Win 3.1, be sure you have the 16-bit version of
Opera.  Then look for a "winsock.dll" using the search-for-files
("search") option in File Manager.  Be sure you don't have two of
them on the system.  ("winsock.dll" comes with Win 3.1.)  Be sure
the directory where this is located is on the PATH statement within
your "autoexec.bat" file.  (If you change "autoexec.bat" to include
this, you'll need to reboot to make this active.  If that can't be
done or is inconvenient, write me back and I can tell you how to
extend the PATH online.)  You can read the stuff at

   http://www.operasoftware.com/support/install.htm

and in the Opera help file.  One portion reads

   How can I get Opera to open my dialer and connect to my ISP?

   Windows will look for and load the closest winsock/dialer 
   program when an application calls up an internet protocol 
   such as http or ftp. This will most often start the dialer. 
   Problems can arise on machines with multiple winsocks (this 
   is a general problem for all browsers). We do not have our 
   own dial-up program.

which is taken from 

   file://localhost/C:/PROGRAM FILES/OPERA/HELP/INDEX.HTM

which is part of the Opera download.  

Failing all that, if you're missing "winsock.dll", you can
reload it from your Windows installation media, or get one 
from, for instance, 

   http://www.dzn.com/support/win31.htm

which provides the very popular "Trumpet Winsock".



[snip]

Enjoy Opera.  It's fabulous!



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