Press Close to dismiss the Options dialog. They also takes full advantage of the advanced features in Win95 like long file names and multi-threading. You'll have to manually connect to your service provider before trying to go online with your 16 bit version. We've tested Agent and Free Agent with Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT 3.5, and they work fine with all of them. Our users are reporting very mixed results, but it is working fine for some of them.
Agent is designed to make offline newsreading as convenient as possible.
When used with an appropriate Winsock driver, it will automatically connect to your service provider when it needs to go online and disconnect as soon as it is through. This can save you both effort and money, but you may need to do some careful configuring to make it work properly. The first step is to configure Agent to go online only when it needs to, and to immediately go offline when it is through. General Preferences menu item and click on the Online tab on the resulting dialog box. This dialog box contains several options that let you control the details of Agent 's online and offline modes.