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64 1F EATURE 111 . teir......et t crArohmetriner n•—• — •-•' . 1 , wan .... . 1 1 dim IIMMEVICE1 I r l & C M Imminibmire until they can be sent, As a rule, you shouldn't need to investigate these directories in your everyday use of AmiTCP. The only time you might want to visit the Spool directory is if you have written a piece of mail or news you think you shouldn't send. For every piece of mail you will find three similarly-named tiles. You must delete all three otherwise your sendmail daemon will get confused. Now it's time to get online. The first thing to do is actually connect to Demon. By now you should have installed AmiTCP from the installer, setting your IP address, password, host name and modem settings, etc. You should also have copied the later versions of some of the files from the LHA archives I suggested previously. If you haven't done this because you haven't been able to use FTP, it doesn't matter - we will do it now. In preparation for full-on, shell-based. techie-type Internet access (we'll deal with the easier stuff later), you should edit your shell-startup script. This can be found in S -and you should add the following line to the end of it: nth nitcp:bin sweent on This will prevent you cd'ing to the AmiTCP directory all the time because it will make AmigaDOS automatically search those directories for any commands you might type. Next, open a Shell window and only type the following command if you don't 1have Startnet in your user-startup script: storm Easy so far. Now we want to connect, so Don't despair it your mall goes astray at first or you can't post articles to newsgroups. It happens to everyone. Try to send mail to the technical guys at Demon, succinctly explaining your config and problems and I have no doubt they will be able to at least help you on your way to finding a solution, if not giving you the fix there and then. FTP and Mail are without doubt the most important (legitimate) uses for the Internet, but if that isn't enough you can try Mosaic which gives you access to the World Wide Web. - make sure your modem goes at at least 14.4k for this as it can be very time-consuming. Even more time-consuming can be IRC or Internet Relay Chat, a sort of global 0891 chatline, As far as neliquette is concerned, try to be polite on the Internet. If you aren't very good at spelling, there are going to be people who pedantically pick on your every point of grammar if - they c a n ' t t h i n k o f a - Note we go again, connecting to Demon's rip server. It you haven't downloaded Gui-FTP yet, see how nic• Eli. compared to ncttp? the lalwiolow how what 15 hOPRIling as qou trq to [vet l qov get an enmed ti02, thP11 the PidISMOt iti ftli d5 Man attempts a5 qov have 5et In control Amiga Computing MAY 1995 make sure your modem is switched on and ready to roll. Type: Two windows should now appear on your Workbench screen, one claiming to be 'AmiTCPIP Log' and the other 'Dialling... The dial window will show what is happening as you try to connect. If you get an engaged tone, then the dialscript will retry for as many attempts as you have set. If the modem seems to have connected, but the dialscript times out, you have two choices. You can either reboot your machine (pretty drastic and not very nice to have to do if you are seriously multitasking) or wait until the dialscript has run through all its iterations and then type link down. However, this probably won't happen. What will probably happen is you will connect to Demon, your 'Dialling,: window will disappear and the 'AmiTCPIP Log' window will say that Mailkick has been started. Mailkick is the program that sends any mail you have written, You are now on the net, Right, we are now going to download heaps of files. You don't have to download all of these programs, indeed you don't actually have to download any of them - they just make life a lot easier, and in some cases, more interesting. Here's my list of the best ones to get, and why: Very important Gui-FTP.tha - easier than using nottp, this gives you a file- amitcp manager-type window for downloading and lutils uploading files from filp sites and takes care - of logging on, etc. uuxt20.1ha 4 0 - you util/ want to send files in mail, or decode K b arc people's news articles, etc. . compress.lzh: - util/arc - 56Kb_ If you see M files 1 4that are labelled filename,Z, they are compressed. u K b . Use this program to decompress c Y them, Especially useful for INDEX files. h o u Fairly important n e mui23usr.the aminet/devigui - 678Kb. Magic e User Interface. This is needed for a lot d of programs most importantly, in this t h the points you i raise. Try to ignore this and don't get into what are known as llamewars' over petty matters (leave s it for important ones). i Don't make your signature more than six lines long it f you can help it and don't leave all the text in a reply to an article or item of e-mail. Also, it is important to remember that ASCII text isn't a very good conductor of emotion, so be very careful what you type. You might type something 'in a sarcastic voice', but the person at the other end is going to be unlikely to realise this unless she is psychic - in which case, why are you bothering with e-mail? Use smileys (otherwise known as emotocons) or abbreviations such as for grin, etc. In case you are one of the four or so people who don't know what a smiley it's a set of ASCII characters that look like a face when viewed from the side, i.e. :-) or 8(. context, AMosaic, Mosaic_12 AmiTCP.lha. amitcp/extras - 194Kb. The only World Wide Web browser available for the Amiga at the moment There is a newer, beta version al the AMosaic home page. Needs MUI AMHotlistV1.50.1ha amitcp/extras - 15Kb Hotlist for AMosaic, also needs MUI to work, plink21.11w amitcptutils - 33Kb, Plink is a replacement script for linking up and has many extra options, Not necessary but handy AutoSig121he amitcp/utils - 30Kb. Adds random signatures to your news postings. SynCrol 3.1he. amitcp/utils - 8Kb A system clock synchroniser. To get these files we are going to have to use ftp or file transfer protocol I'm not going to explain what file transfer protocol actually is. it's beyond the scope of this article and there are numerous books on the Internet so you should find literature galore on it. My recommendations are Ed Krol's The Whole Internet, which is available direct from Demon, or any of the FAOs you find online. You should still have your shell window open, so type: Workbench:3 nettle ftp.demon,to.ok pefte ito.denn.co.vk into it, ncttp is the nearest thing to a userfriendly, keyboard-based lip client on the Amiga, but I still suggest one of the first things you get is GUI-FTP in the list above. You should end up with an 'hp> and . psome r o mtext p saying t welcome to Demon's hp server, You should then 'cd', just like normal, to the publamiga directory from where you can cd to the directories listed above for the files you want to download. FTP uses a command called get to download the files and Unix (which is what nearly all ftp servers are running as an operating system) is case-dependant, so you will have to get the exact spelling for your files. An ideal situation would look like this: Welcome to Demon Internet's ttp archive. Guest login ok, access restrictions apply, Logged into disabuse. demon.co.uk. 1.5.6 (September 20, 1993), Amiga version 1.2 (May 3 1994) ntitp3cd putdoeighlositcp Non lu. 25 OA:00:DO GAT 199t For Demon users to install AmiTCP, please download the AmiTCP-DiSrl 0 archive from the installer directory. Other people are welcome to download it, but the installer
tras - owser ment. it the 5Kb. 11JI to ,k is a d has dy Adds los. 8K b lye to rn not otocol is artim the galore Krol's liable Is you indow userin the a first ibove. rompt mon's st like • from listed ad. let to ; what as an st designed specifically for use with Demon Internet Services. Other users may still find 'vs useful, as it contains a complete Mail. News, FTP, Telnet, Gopher and so on installation. Not Co be installed over existing ArniTCP setups, Wed Jan 12 12759:43 GMT 1994 Meese upload AMITCP files into the directory ipublamigaiamitcptincoming. Files must be accompanied by a . .readme' 'lest' or - o r This _rea' file should contain an upload name (email o r address) and a single line description cl ethe l Me, s as well as any additional descriptive e information you wish to include. t h drver@demon.net. e y w i l l It 'rue Jan 11 18:47:33 GMT 1994 b P Please see the file README for details e out AmiTCP l PLEASE e r note that Demon InterNet do not e officially a support AmiTCP (yeti a s s edissbuse.deson.coAdc:/pubiamigatmeitcp e etftd>get d . e - 10-FTP.S14: 10 such M e OR dirsctscs. M a i l d fi s a bus .1its e.d vsabuse.demom.co.uk:ipmblemigeamitcplutiis emc . : s.o e t a i l s o f u p l o a d s t o fiui .ubi t -suds, lpu14 0 U s. s b hFT gP. ftsa lasi eth bhcl pie to s s: use miii scl G setkiltisch:s ii u$ .de ue i l i0smii W AS -6 .o. i ryou can see, I got my download wrong on d F1 mbi f my first attempt, but I knew I hadn't gone into - T 6 triu t the right directory so I just CD'd into q utils P p . bbrel and repeated my instruction to 'get. If u i you ty lph th aren't sure exactly where you are, you 'tan bt mit c type 'pwd' which will allow your current e ec d directory, or 'Is' to list that directory's E contents. s plot irIts The file you lust 'got' will be wherever you started -e S ncflp from, so in my case c T it is in 'Workbench:'. e P Unpack this fi le and . i install it and we will have tv he more ftp fun, Gui-FTP a d gives you the opportunity : i to leave the keyboard for m a button-based ftp inter- 4 face. Now go and get some of the other files I 6 . have mentioned in the list 0 above - you should find it ! fairly easy. s MUI is the only hard e one you'll need to get. The c current version isn't actually - on ftp.clemon.co,uk, but is available on the Aminet. What's the Aminet? It's a collection of files copied to various ftp servers around the world. Our nearest one is at the Once you have got used to fiddling around with ltp. here am some more files you might like to gel: Mailmarker.lha, amineticommimall - 12K. This little commodity watches for new mail and tells you when you have some. tt can watch as many mailboxes as you like. amineticommlmail - 39K. MUI-based email program. Nice and quick to use. MUIBuilder21.1ha: aminsitidevigui - 679K. Lets you build interfaces for MUI programs and can generate code for a number of different compilers including Amiga E. PGPArni.23a pubiamigaiutilicrypt - 235Kb. 11 you want your email to be extremely private, then use PGP, which is a military-grade encryption Imperial College in London, next to the Science Museum. Ifs address (and I can assure you. you will be typing this one in a lot) is 'src.doc.ic.ac.ule If you lust want to get MUI right now. that's fine, but a good idea would be to download the INDEX file in the aminet directory. This is a complete listing of all files available on Amulet and you can use DOpus to search through it for files you want to get. Also, there is normally a RECENT file which details programs uploaded to Aminet in the last seven days - if you want to really be up-to-date. The INDEX file gets updated weekly. If you have already downloaded compress, you can download the INDEX.Z which should be much smaller To decompress it, make a copy of It in RAM:, open a shell window and cd to ram: and type: marts, I know I didn't put the 2 On the end, compress doesn't need or sort 111. You will then find that your INDEX2 file has disappeared, to be replaced by a fully-formed INDEX file which is plain old ASCII text. You can now browse through all the files on the Aminet without having to be online, pick the items you want, get on and retrieve them, and get off again in the shortest possible time. Next is mail and news. They go hand-inhand because the articles you send to newsgroups are treated lust like normal mail at your end of the Internet connection. Sending mail couldril be easier. Just load the prograrn i n your bin directory and hit the mail button By default. Mail will use Ed for you to write mail with, but you can change it to another text editor. Most Amiga users on the Internet lend to use Cygnus Ed or Tuttotext, but you can use any nonresident text editor you like The hie you need to edit to change editor is AmiTCPArsubb/Config, but this is available from Mail, so you don't have to go searching for it. When you send mail make sure you get the address nght - unlike the The ultimate address book providing Instant access acro ss the .nth - There are . p l a n e t . hundreds or thousands of individual places and rmiated info just waiting to be browsed Amiga Computing MAY 1995 FEATURE Other fun 5tuff program. This file can be found at hp.demon.co.uk. AmigaElm-v5.1ha: amineticommimail - 352K. The latest version of Elm. It can now automatically encrypt your malls if you are using PGP. tin123.1ha: amineticomminews - 181K. Updated version of Tin. Warning! Don't use the postnews command that comes with this version, stick with the postnews that came with AmITCP (it should be 87 bytes In size). grapevine-1 33.1ha: pubiamigaiamitcp/extras - 243Kb. IRC or Internet Relay Chat client. Run your phonebills up even taster than 0891 numbers. This Is from ttp.demon.co.uk. post office the Internet is very unforgiving for wrong mail addresses, even down to the case of the letters. Once you have got used to Mail, you might like to try Elm which is also available on Demon's ftp server and is, I think, much better. News on the other hand, isn't quite so Yr- Hot SGI HOmepage NASA Hot Wired Demon UK Yahoo Search IDC HomePage Internet Shopping Motor Sport Music Index Coffee ? Homepage Kennedy Space Centre FBI HomePage Lycos Search Iconz Nviz London Music Subway Navigator The Whitehouse BBC TV Power PC HomePage CIX Amiga Homepage NewIek Ughtwave & Toaster Record Labels New Butts X-Files FIP Useless WWW pages AmiNet Homepage Cool Site of the Day Previous Cool Sites of the Da Jokes, and Fun Magazines Who's Who on the net World Wide Web Robots, Wan ,WebCrawier CUSI Services lJumpStation Header JumpStation Title Video Games Page Add I Elelete Edit I II-
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