That would indeed have been pretty cool and I remember reading up on ideas like that. What we actually did (as I mentioned in a recent reply) was use a helper p

That would indeed have been pretty cool and I remember reading up on ideas like that. What we actually did (as I mentioned in a recent reply) was use a helper program written by someone who knew a language other than QBasic that fetched files given a URL on the command line. I don't think there was a client that ran in actual DOS.