I have found a good Web-based MSN Messenger, www.e-messenger.net Although I am having a few problems sending messages. It recieves, shows and does everything. I am an adequate user of QBasic and was wondering if anyone knew if QBasic could connect to a server or not, if so I will create a .exe or .bat for MSN in Win 3.1/DOS. I hope someone has some input :-). Regards, Intel Celeron 433MHz 64 Meg Ram 10Gig HDD 32 Meg Graphics Card CD-RW 32x10x40x 15" LCD Monitor

You mean compile it "long distance", as it were..hmmm..think that's one you'd have to try it and see..not sure how the folks on that end would feel 'bout it tho.... %00

Hmm has anyone tried the official web based messenger at http://webmessenger.msn.com/ on 3.1 with any success? Not that I'm wanting to use MSN on the o/s, just wondered how it's going because I used to use 3.1 in recent years and was always looking for a way to get messenger working :)

Out of curiosity, I tried that link in Netscape Navigator Gold 3.04 on Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I just get a strange error page titled, "Input String was not in a correct format." The page starts out with "Server Error in '/' Application" followed by a Description, Exception Details, Source Error, and Stack Trace. Fun stuff. :)

I further tested this in Opera 3.62 (ID'ing as both Netscape 3.0 and 4.71), IE 3.03, Netscape Communicator 4.08, and even some 2.8.x versions of Lynx. In each case, I am "greeted" with a message saying that my browser is not supported. Enabling / disabling Javascript yields the same results. It claims that you need either IE 5+, Netscape 7+, or Mozilla 1.6+. The latter two are obviously not available for Windows 3.1, but you might try IE 5 on Windows 3.1. Perhaps someone else here who has IE 5 installed can confirm whether or not that works. On a side note, AIM works fine on Win 3.x since it is included with Netscape 4.04 through 4.08. The Java version of AIM works too, at least the last time I checked in IE 3.03 and Netscape 4.08. Now if I could just find a way to get on AIM in pure DOS....