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Around browsing |
Real time |
E-mail |
Newsgroups |
File transfer |
Server
Graphic |
Animation |
Sound&Music |
Editors |
Telnet |
Main
BROWSER 
Netscape Navigator 3.x - the virtues of earlier days, offered Win3 versions only 40 bits SSL, free
Netscape Navigator 4.08 - free (9m)
NCSA Mosaic 2 - early web browser (~2m)
Internet WorkHorse - experimental 128 bit SSL browser, server, secure SMTP, from the earlier net days (350k)
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Around WWW browsing 
Windows for Workgroups TCP/IP-32 - WfW "Wolverine" stack for Internet connectivity.
Trumpet Winsock 3 - PPP or Slip Internet connection software (570k)
Tip: Common configurations for Trumpet are MTU:576 MSS:536 RWIN:2144
or MTU:1006 MSS:966 RWIN:3864 or MTU:1500 MSS:1460 RWIN:4380.
ModemSta - displays and logs modem activity (300k)
Win32s - Windows 3.1 operation system extension to 32 bit (3m)
Euro symbol - upgrades Windows 3 to use the Euro font symbol
Wiz - unzip program Infozip with Windows interface, free (322k)
Screen Loupe - if sight is decreased, free
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REAL TIME COMMUNICATION 
Chat and similar programs
Agora - direct one to one text communication over Internet, free (105k)
mIRC 5.6 - good IRC program (955k)
PIRCH - good IRC program (820k)
Visual IRC - IRC program, free (940k)
Wirc - IRC program, free (440k)
WS-IRC - IRC program (690k)
TeleVox - Internet voice communication, free (635k)
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E-MAIL 
FoxMail - good e-mail program, small and easy to use, free (300k)
PegasusMail - e-mail program with useful mail filtering options, free (3.200k)
Eudora Light - good e-mail program, free (4.55m)
Graphic E-mail - multimedia mail, free, (1.900k)
PGP - e-mail privacy software, free for non-commercial use.
Remailer List - current list with uptimes.
[Procmail: You will need a shell account to run the scripts by yourself or an administrator or internet provider who integrates the scripts]
E-mail Sanitizer - procmail filter scripts deactivating executable content.
Spambouncer.org - procmail filter scripts to handle unsolicited e-mails.
Timo Salmi's procmail tips - and a procmail based
e-mail password system.
(related: reading e-mail headers)
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NEWSGROUPS READER 
Agent - newsreader with many features, manual (pdf), free for privat use
News Xpress - capable newsreader, free (210k)
Win VN - good newsreader, free (310k)
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FTP 
WS FTP LE - client, free for non-commercial users (952k)
Tip: You can use your browser to access ftp sites which require a special
user name and password. Enter in the location line an address in the form of
ftp://username:password@ftp.servername.com
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SERVER 
Xitami - easy to set-up multithreaded web server, free
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GRAPHIC 
Graphic viewer, painting and drawing programs
PaintShop Pro - good paint program for GIF, JPEG, BMP.. (1.93m)
XNview - multi format viewer for GIF, JPEG .., needs Win32s 1.3 extension, free (1.1m)
Imagej - Java image viewer, plugins for various formats, free
Graphics Workshop - list, view and convert many image formats (1.75m)
Acrobat Reader - viewer for PDF files, free (3.9m)
Tip: In Win3 you can capture the entire desktop with the PrintScreen key
or only the active Window with Alt + PrintScreen. Then you can paste the
captured image into your paint program.
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ANIMATION 
Gif animation and video programs
AniMagic - useful GIF animation program with file size optimization (275k)
Personal AVI Editor - AVI video creation program (1.15m)
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SOUND & MUSIC 
GoldWave 3.03 - sound recorder and editor. Supports WAV, VOC, AU, SND, AIF, IFF.. (470k)
Cool Edit 1.53 - sound recorder and editor. Supports WAV, VOC, VOX, AU, SND, AIF, IFF.. (840k)
WHAM - sound recorder and editor. Supports WAV, VOC, AU, AIF, IFF (140k)
TrueSpeech - Internet speech compression and communication, free (1m)
WinPlay3 - MP3 player, free for personal, non-commercial use
SoundScape - WAV background player, needs VBRUN300.DLL (6k)
NoteWorthy Player - midi player displays a note score for the music, free (510k)
FastMidi - player, consists of a permanent open midi selector window, free (834k)
Thinking Music - MIDI player, free (180k)
Hubie's loopback 2.5 - midi device driver connects in/output of several programs, free (38k)
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EDITORS 
HTML and text editors
PFE Programmer's File Editor - edits multiple files, macros and more, free (545k)
NotGNU - emacs like editor, manual, free (269k)
Prolix - files up to 16 Mb, split view of same file, multiple files, free for non-commercial use (253k)
Mini Note Tab - edits several files but each only up to 40K, free (395k)
NotesPad - another multiple file editor, free (214k)
HTML Writer - HTML editor (245k)
Allchar - to ease input of foreign language characters, free
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TELNET 
Tera Term - good telnet program, free (690k)
SimpTerm - telnet with file transfer, free for non-commercial use (110k)
Ewan - small telnet program, free (260k)
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