This document is intended to answer the most Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ's) about Tribal Voice's PowWow. This FAQ is a supplement to the program’s built-in online help. The online help is included with PowWow and is named POWWOW.HLP. Help can be obtained from most places in PowWow by pressing the F1 key.
If you have not read the online help, please do so before proceeding. It contains crucial information about installing and configuring PowWow as well as helpful troubleshooting information that can be used to resolve the most commonly asked about technical issues.
NOTE: You can search the FAQ by using your web browser's "Find" function. This is accessed in most web browsers by pressing Ctrl-F.
This FAQ is constantly being updated as new versions of PowWow are released and new questions arise. The most recent public version of this FAQ can always be found on Tribal Voice's web site at http://support.tribal.com/powwow/faq/.
NOTE: Some versions of PowWow cannot join or host PowWow Communities. If you wish to use Communities, you must use a version of PowWow that provides support for Communities. If you wish to use Communities, check with the distributor of your copy of PowWow first to see if they are supported.
Further assistance may be obtained from the distributor of your copy of
the software:
Aryeh Goretsky
Tech Support
All product names and trademarks mentioned in this document are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Version 0.24 - 000216 - revised Questions 21, 57, 70, and 72
Version 0.23 - 000215 - revised Questions 16, 28, and 57
Version 0.22 - 000211 - revised Preface, Questions 22, 26, 36, 40, 44, 47, 62, and 67
Version 0.21 - 000209 - revised Preface, Questions 9, 23, 24, 26, 32, 33, 41, 42, 45, 49, 57, 60, 68, and 69, added Question 73
Version 0.20 - 000207 - revised Preface, Questions 4, 5, 20, 21, 25, 26, 60, and 70. and 70, added Questions 71 and 72
Version 0.19 - 000124 - revised Preface, copyright
Version 0.18 - 000121 - revised Preface
Version 0.17 - 000105 - added Question 70
Version 0.16 - 991221 - revised preface
Version 0.15 - 991208 - revised preface, cleaned up naming conventions
Version 0.14 - 991124 - revised preface, Question 68, added Question 69 (thanks Michael and Jim)
Version 0.13 - 991123 - revised preface, added question 68
Version 0.12 - 991111 - added Questions 66 and 67, cleaned up grammar (thanks Dan)
Version 0.11 - 991106 - revised preface, added table of contents, indexed questions, cleaned up HTML
Version 0.10 - 991030 - initial release
PowWow allows you to send instant messages and chat with
other people over the Internet, as well as send them files and URL’s.
With PowWow, you can interact with other people who use PowWow,
as well as AOL Instant Messenger, AltaVista Messenger, AT&T I M Here,
Freeserve Communicator, and MSN Messenger Service. Additional tabs in
the Mini-browser window may allow you to view pages containing news,
stock quotes, weather, and other web information configured by the
distributor of this software. You can also perform web searches all
through PowWow's Mini-browser interface. Other tabs may be available
in your copy of PowWow.
You should use your e-mail address with PowWow. If you do not
enter your own e-mail address and lose your password, you will not be
able to regain access to PowWow.
Your PowWow address can be up to 199 characters long. Your user name can be up to forty-nine (49) characters long, and your domain name can be up to 150 characters long, including the at sign (@), unless you are using an altavista.com address.
If you are using an altavista.com address, the user name
portion of your email address can be no longer than sixteen (16)
characters, and can be composed of alphanumeric characters, periods
(.) and underscores (_).
Pick a password which uses a mixture of alphanumeric and punctuation characters. Do not use the same password you use for your e-mail address unless you are using an altavista.com address.
You can create a password of up to sixty-four (64) characters in length, unless you are using an altavista.com address.
If you are using an altavista.com address, you must enter the
same password you use with your e-mail account. Your
altavista.com password is between three (3) and sixteen (16)
characters long and can contain alphanumeric characters.
You can retrieve your password by using the form at http://support.tribal.com/powwow/password/ unless you use an altivista.com address. Enter your email address, and your password will be mailed back to you in a few minutes.
If you have an altavista.com address, you need to visit Alta
Vista’s web site instead at
http://register.av.com/cgi-bin/usercare.exe and follow the
instructions to retrieve your password.
You can change your password using the form on our web site at http://support.tribal.com/powwow/password/ unless you use an altivista.com address.
If you use an altavista.com address, visit Alta Vista’s web
site for more information about changing your password.
To change your PowWow address, select Options¦ Preferences… from the main menu and click on the User Info tab. Enter your new address in the e-mail address field, and your new password in the password field.
If you have an entry in Tribal Voice’s White Pages, you will want to remove your old entry by using the form at http://ww2.tribal.com/white_pages/WPUpdateCheck.cfm. After you have done this, create a new entry using the form at http://www.tribal.com/white_pages/join_white_pages.cfm.
NOTE: If you change your PowWow address, you will
erase your Buddy List.
The ads cannot be disabled because they support your continued free
use of the software.
For information on advertising in PowWow, contact the 24/7
Network at
http://www.247media.com/ad_sales/jump_gen.htm.
There are several reasons you may be unable to use your AIM account with
PowWow. The most common ones are as follows:
You can use PowWow with AOL, with the following provisos:
Buddies cannot directly be moved from one category to another. You can, however, move buddies by deleting them from one category, and adding them to another.
To move a Buddy, right-click on their name and select
Information… from the popup menu. Write down their PowWow
address. After their address is in a safe location, right-click on
their name again and select Remove Buddy from the popup menu.
Next, click on Buddy¦Add… from the main menu. Enter
the information you saved, select the list you wish for them to appear
on, and click on OK when done, or Cancel to quit.
No, your online visibility is the same to all users in all lists.
No, a Buddy’s address can only appear once in the list. However, if a
Buddy has multiple addresses, you can put each address in a different
section.
Buddies who are online are displayed above those who are offline,
alphabetically.
You can remove someone from your Buddy list by right-clicking on their
name and selecting Remove Buddy from the popup menu.
This message appears when your copy of PowWow could not
retrieve configuration information from your vendor’s servers. This
can occur for several reasons:
The only limits are the Internet connection and how much free space is
available on the recipient’s hard disk. File transfers of up to 40MB
have been performed without any problems.
By default, files are saved in the PowWow application
directory.
Yes, you can change the default download location by selecting Options
¦Preferences… from the main menu and clicking on the
Files and Directories tab. Enter the path you wish to use in the
File Transfer Directory field and click on OK when done.
You can find people to chat with in the White Pages, a searchable directory of PowWow users. To view the White Pages, click on the Friends icon in your Mini-browser window. Your web browser will open, and show you the last twenty-five (25) people who have run PowWow and have entries in the White Pages. Click on a person’s name to request a Real-time chat.
NOTE: Currently, if you are using an altavista.com
address, you cannot access the Adult White Pages, or place an ad in
the PowWow Personals. Tribal Voice and Alta Vista are working on a
solution for this. Check the web site for updated information.
To run PowWow from through a firewall and communicate over the Internet, you must first open the ports used by PowWow on firewall. Contact your network security administrator and ask him to configure the firewall so that TCP ports 25, 80, <110/TT> 1863, 13223, 13224, and 23213 are enabled for bi-directional access and UDP port 13223 is enabled for bi-directional access.
TCP ports 25 and 110 are used for sending and receiving messages via email. TCP port 80 is used for retreiving web information and AIM interoperability. TCP port 1863 is used for Microsoft Network Messenger interoperability.
The UDP port is used only for voice chat, so if you wish you may leave this port disabled, however, you will be unable to voice chat with anyone outside your network.
To run PowWow behind privately for communicating solely with people on
your network, you will need a copy of PowWow for Private Networks
(PWPN). For more information, contact Tribal Voice’s sales department
at
sales@tribal.com.
Currently, you cannot run PowWow from behind a proxy server.
Tribal Voice is investigating adding this functionality in a
future release of the software.
PowWow works by mapping your PowWow (e-mail) address to the unique IP address of your network interface. With these two pieces of information, other copies of PowWow can make connections to contact you, transmit instant messages, and so forth.
Technologies such as Windows 98 Second Edition's Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) work by allowing several computers to share the same network connection and IP address by proxy.
When you use a proxying service such as ICS, your computers no longer have an unique IP address assigned to their network connections. Consequently, PowWow will be unable to correctly make connections.
To get around this, you must uninstall ICS before running PowWow.
For further assistance, contact the distributor from whom you
received your copy of PowWow. A list of distributors appears in
the Preface.
Yes. The following HTML tag creates a link to PowWow:
Click <A HREF="powwow:user@domain.org">here
</A> to page me.
The following HTML tag creates a button (form) to PowWow:
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="powwow:user@domain.org
"><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Click here to
PowWow"></FORM>
In order for either of these links to work, PowWow must be running on the computer of the person viewing the page before they click on one of the links.
For more examples of PowWow links, including links with graphics,
visit Tribal voice's web site at
http://support.tribal.com/powwow/help/tips/addlink.htm.
The default installation path for PowWow is C:\Program Files\Tribal Voice\PowWow\.
For Alta Vista Messenger, the default path is C:\Program Files\AltaVista\Messenger\.
For AT&T I M Here, the default path is C:\Program Files\AT&T\I M Here\.
For Freeserve Communicator, the default path is C:\Program Files\Freeserve\Freeserve Communicator\.
For Powermark power.station, the default path is C:\Program Files\Powermark plc\power.station\.
NOTE: If you have an older version of PowWow installed on your
computer, the setup program will detect it and automatically use its
path.
The setup program requires your computer have a temporary directory on your hard disk to unpack files used during the setup process. At the end of the setup process, these files are removed. To make a temporary directory on your computer first create the directory and then add a line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT that says:
SET TEMP={pathname of temporary directory}
If you use Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0, make sure the directory uses a short ("8.3"-style) path name, not a long path name such as "C:\Temporary Files".
For example, you could use:
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
for your temporary directory. The drive that has the temporary directory should have at least 4Mb of disk space free.
NOTE: If you have done all the above and still receive errors
while running Setup delete the contents of the temporary directory and
re-run Setup.
Local abbreviations allow you to create your own abbreviations for the
text-to-speech synthesizer. Abbreviations are stored in the
ABBREVS.TXT file in your PowWow installation
directory.
Yes, you can change your local abbreviations file. Edit the
ABBREVS.TXT file in your PowWow installation directory
using your favorite text editor (DOS EDIT, Notepad, and so forth). Any
line that begins with a pound sign (#) is a comment and not treated as a
n abbreviation. A period (.) in or at the end of an abbreviation make a
difference. For example, FBI, F.B.I. and FBI. could all have different
meanings.
The local abbreviations file is read by PowWow when started
and stored in memory. In order for your changes to be recognized, you
must exit and restart the program.
The total size of the local abbreviation file can be no longer
than 20KB.
PowWow recognizes Windows bitmap (BMP), GIF, and JPEG formatted images. Animated GIFs and progressive JPEGs are not currently supported by PowWow. Windows bitmap (BMP) and GIF pictures are converted into JPEG’s before being sent to other people.
Version 3.x of PowWow had a 10KB limitation on picture sizes. If a
person running PowWow Version 3.x requests your picture, it will be
automatically resized before being sent to them.
The maximum picture size is 200 by 200 pixels. Pictures larger than
this are re-sized by PowWow.
You can chat with up to eight (8) other people besides yourself in a Real-
time Chat session, for a total of nine (9) people.
If you request a Real-time chat with someone who is talking with more than
one person, then you will be joined by the person you requested the chat
with and the other parties with whom they were talking,
unless the other people had their answering machines on, or
chat requests set to refuse.
If you page some who is already talking with eight people, or the
combined total of your Personal Communicator chats would exceed nine
people, a message will be displayed telling you the connection could
not be established because the maximum number of users would be
exceeded.
NOTE: If you installed PowWow over a previous version of
PowWow, and then uninstall it, you will need to reinstall the previous
version of PowWow again to regain access to the software.
You can remove the PowWow software by running the
Add/Remove Programs applet from your Control Panel,
selecting PowWow from the list of programs, and
clicking on the Add/Remove button.
To save a transcript of an instant message session, select File ¦Save As… from the menu of the Instant Message window, and select a path to save the log file. Files are saved as ASCII text. To copy a transcript of an instant message session out of the history buffer into another program, select Edit¦Copy chat to Clipboard from the menu bar of the Instant Message window to copy the instant messages into the clipboard, then paste them into your favorite text editor (DOS Edit, Notepad, and so forth).
Note that PowWow only stores the last 20KB of an instant
message session in the history buffer.
Currently, you cannot save a transcript of a Personal Communciator
chat session. Tribal Voice is investigating adding this functionality
in a future release of the software.
If your copy of PowWow is configured for use with multiple search
engines, clicking on the name of the search engine will open a
pop-up list of available search engines.
No, the search engines are pre-configured by your PowWow
vendor.
With PowWow, your password can be up to 64 characters in length. With AltaVista Messenger, your password can be between three and sixteen characters.
As a rule, do not use the following when creating your
password:
The information for your account is stored in the POWWOW.INI file. This file is kept in your Windows startup directory (typically C:\WINDOWS for Windows 95 and 98 users, and C:\WINNT for Windows NT 4.0 users). Along with other settings, your address and password are stored in this file so you can log in automatically when you run PowWow.
Although your password is encrypted in the POWWOW.INI file, you should never give a copy of this file to anyone else. You can also change the settings in PowWow so your password is not saved and you will be prompted to enter it each time the software is run.
Technical Support will never ask you for your password. If
someone says they are an employee and asks you for your password,
do not give it to them.
To prevent your password from being saved, select Options¦
Preferences… from the main menu and click on the User
Info tab. Un-check (de-select) the Save Password option.
PowWow keeps track of your AIM and MSN Messenger address and
password so you may automatically log on to these services. For
security purposes, passwords is encrypted and only sent to service
provider in question, i.e., your AOL password is only sent to AOL’s
servers, your MSN password is only sent to Microsoft’s servers, and so
forth. If you wish, you can prevent PowWow from saving your
password.
In PowWow, communications between parties such as instant messages or Personal Communicator chats are point-to-point, i.e., they go directly between the participants without going through Tribal Voice’s computers. In a Community, conversations in the Group Chat window are sent to the Community Server and dispatched from their to the audience.
Conversations in the Personal Community window cannot be saved. Instant messages can be saved by both the sender and the receiver. In PowWow, messages in the Group Chat window of a Community can be saved by anyone in that Community.
NOTE: If you received your copy of PowWow from a distributor,
rather than directly from Tribal Voice, contact them to see if your
copy supports Communities.
Abuse should be reported by e-mail to
abuse@tribal.com. Be sure to include as much information
as possible, including the time it occurred (and in which time zone),
the connection information from the other person(s), and any screen
shots or logs of the abuse in question.
You cannot get a virus from chatting with other people, or from viewing the personal profiles or pictures. You can get a computer virus (or other malicious computer program) by running a file you have been sent, just as you can with file sent as an e-mail attachment or on a disk.
Data files such as pictures (such as files ending in .BMP, .GIF, and .JPG), and sounds (files ending in .MID, .MP3, and .WAV) are "inert" and contain no computer code. As such, they can be safely viewed without concern. Program files (such as files ending in .BAT, .COM, or .EXE,) and some types of documents (.DOC, .DOC)contain code which is executed by your computer. These files can contain computer viruses.
There is no 100 percent way to protect yourself against computer
viruses, but here are some steps you can take to reduce the
risk:
PowWow's sound events can be changed through the Sounds
applet in the Control Panel.
More sound schemes are available from the following web sites:
You can remove sounds by going into QuikSound, clicking on them with
the right mouse button, and selecting Remove from the pop-up menu.
PowWow stores the names (Sound I.D.s) and locations (path and
filename) of .WAV sounds files in the [SOUNDS] section of
your C:\WINDOWS\POWWOW.INI file. If there is a bad
entry in the section, PowWow will not display or play sounds
correctly (you may hear your default Windows sound instead). Entries
in the [SOUNDS] section should look like:
[SOUNDS] ABLE=C:\POWWOW\ABLE.WAV Bravo=C:\PowWow\Bravo.Wav charlie=c:\powwow\charlie.wavand so forth…
If you find any blank lines, lines missing either a name or a location, lines with garbage characters, or other malformed entries in the [SOUNDS] section you must remove them before PowWow can play the sounds. Examples of bad entries:
[SOUNDS] = (missing name and location) Bravo= (missing location) =c:\powwow\charlie.wav (missing name) DELTA=C:\POWWOW\DELTA.WAV!@#$%^ (garbage in filename) ECHO=C:\POWWOW\WAV (missing filename)and so forth…
PowWow works with the text-to-speech engine of any SAPI
4.0-compliant speech synthesizer. PowWow has currently been
tested with the following products:
The following companies produce text-to-speech synthesizers
that work with PowWow:
If you are performing a voice chat in PowWow, or have another
program running which uses the sound card, the speech synthesizer
may not start up. To fix this, close the voice chat or other
program that uses the sound card, and turn the speech synthesizer
off and on again.
PowWow requires a computer with Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0 installed on it, a working Internet connection, and a web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator/Communicator.
| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
| Processor | Pentium 166MHz+ | Pentium II 233 |
| Memory | 32MB RAM (more RAM will result in improved performance) | |
| Disk Space | 32MB free to install, 4.5MB required for files | |
| Display | 800×600×8-bit | 1024×768×16-bit |
| Sound Card | half-duplex Windows compatible | full-duplex Windows compatible |
| Modem | 28.8kbps+ | 56kbps |
| Mouse | any Windows compatible | |
| Web Browser | Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0+ | |
| Operating System | Windows 95 OSR2 | Windows 98 or NT 4.0 (SP4+ required) |
NOTE: Beginning with Version 4.0, PowWow has a built-in mini web browser to download configuation data and render HTML elements within the program, such as custom icons and the web browser tabs. The mini web browser makes use of core Microsoft Internet Explorer files, available with Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 4.0 or later. If Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later) is not installed, PowWow will not work. This can be fixed by installing the latest version of Internet Explorer from Microsoft's web site at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/. This is required in order for PowWow to operate. You can still use other web browsers such as Netscape Navigator with PowWow.
To ensure best performance, you should install the latest audio and
video drivers from your hardware vendor, plus the latest operating
system patches from Microsoft.
PowWow is not currently available for the Apple Macintosh.
PowWow is not currently available for Linux.
Yes, but keep in mind the following:
If you attempt to voice chat in PowWow while another program running
which uses the sound card, including PowWow’s speech synthesizer, the
voice chat window may not open. To fix this, turn off the speech
synthesizer or other program that uses the sound card, and try your
voice chat again.
To use the voice chat feature, you need at least a 28,800 bps connection to the Internet. Below that speed, the connection rapidly becomes worse until you cannot hear anything intelligible.
For best results:
You may also wish to replace the microphone that came with your sound card. There are many manufacturers of microphones. Here is a partial list:
Andrea Electronics
Be sure to check with your sound card manufacturer for recommendations.
The White Pages are a searchable database of other PowWow
users. With the White Pages, you can search for other people with
interests similar to yours among all the other PowWow users who have
listed themselves in the White Pages.
You can add yourself to the White Pages by filling out the form at http://www.tribal.com/white_pages/ unless you have an altavista.com address.
If you have an altavista.com address, go to http://ww2.tribal.com/avm/join.cfm instead.
Your information will appear in the White Pages shortly after it has
been entered.
PowWow minimizes itself to the System Tray when you perform these operations, so that you may continue to receive instant messages, communicate with Buddies, and so forth.
To exit PowWow, you must right-click on the PowWow icon in your
System Tray and select Exit from the popup menu.
To prevent PowWow from playing sound events, select Options¦
Preferences… from the main menu, click on the Sound /
Voice tab, and de-select (un-check) Play Sound Events.
In order to erase all of the Sound Events in PowWow, you will need to edit your System Registry.
NOTE: The System Registry contains critical information about your computer's settings. Altering your System Registry is an operation intended only for advanced users. If you damage your System Registry, you may need to reinstall your operating system and all applications on your computer.
PowWow's Sound Events are stored in the
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\PowWow\ key. By
deleting this key, you will remove PowWow's Sound Events.
In order to import your buddy list from AIM, you must first save a
copy to make it accessible to PowWow:
NOTE: If you are running PowWow Version 3.9 and have more
than 107 buddies in your AIM buddy list, PowWow will return a General
Protection Fault. This is fixed in PowWow Version 4.0.
If you are using PowWow Version 3.9 and attempt to add more than
107 AIM buddies, PowWow will report a General Protection Fault
(GPF). This is fixed in PowWow Version 4.0.
PowWow should work with Network ICE's BlackICE software when set up to the "cautious" level. To use PowWow with BlackICE when set to the "Paranoid" level, you must first edit your FIREWALL.INI file, which is found in your BlackICE installation directory.
NOTE: Exteme caution should be taken when editing the FIREWALL.INI file since it configures your BlackICE program. Be sure to make a backup copy before changing it.
Shut down BlackICE is it is running (refer to your User's Manual for instructions on how to do this)
Open the FIREWALL.INI file using your favorite text editor (the DOS EDIT command, Notepad, and so forth). Locate the section labeled [MANUAL TCP high REJECT]. If no such section exists, create one.
Add the following lines to the section:
ACCEPT, 25, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL ACCEPT, 80, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL ACCEPT, 110, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL ACCEPT, 1863, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL ACCEPT, 13223, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL ACCEPT, 13224, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL ACCEPT, 23213, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL ACCEPT, 23214, PowWow, 2000-01-01 01:00:00, PERPETUAL
Save the FIREWALL.INI file and start BlackICE. It
is now configured to work with PowWow.
PowWow must be exited correctly in order to save your AIM buddy list. If you shut-down or restart your computer without closing PowWow, your AIM buddy list will not be saved.
To exit PowWow, right-click on the PowWow icon in your System Tray
and select Exit from the popup menu. For more
information on closing PowWow, see Q65: PowWow
doesn't exit….
If you have Symantec Norton Internet Security 2000 and set the
Security level to Medium or High, you will need
to create a Firewall Rule in order to use PowWow. Here's how:
For further assistance with configuring Symantec Norton Internet
Security 2000, contact Symantec at
http://www.symantec.com/.
You can run PowWow at the same time as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and Microsoft Network Messenger (MSNMS), however, you cannot use the same account in PowWow and the other instant messaging program, since you can only be present in one "location."
Errors will occur if you attempt to use the same account in PowWow and one of the other programs. To get around this, you can create new AIM and MSNMS accounts to use in PowWow or the other programs.
For additional information on troubleshooting AIM connection
problems, see Q9) above.
Browser tabs - Clickable tabs near the edge of the PowWow Mini-browser window that allow you to view different panes of information in the PowWow Mini-browser window.
domain name - The "name" of a particular network of computers attached to the Internet. For example, all of Tribal Voice's networked computers have a domain name of tribal.com.
dynamic IP address - An IP address that changes each time a connection is made to an ISP. This type of connection is usually made with modems that dial into the ISP’s computers.
fixed IP address - An IP address which does not change. Networked computers and other computers with permanent connections to the Internet typically have fixed IP addresses.
Internet Service Provider - The business responsible for providing you with access to the Internet.
IP address - A numeric address used to identify a computer or other device (printer, router, and so forth) connected to the Internet. IP addresses are composed of four sets of numbers with values of 0 to 255. For example, 208.147.9.34 is the IP address for Tribal Voice's World-Wide Web server.
ISP - See Internet Service Provider
Mini-browser - Configurable browser windows used inside PowWow to display information.
PowWow Address - The e-mail address used to identify and contact people running PowWow.
PowWow Servers - Computers used by the PowWow software to register and to look up the IP addresses of other PowWow users so connections can be made to them. You can also install your own PowWow Server so your copy of PowWow can register with its own private server on a private network.
SAPI - See Speech Application Programming Interface.
Speech Application Programming Interface - A common interface developed by Microsoft to provide compatibility between programs which perform voice recognition, speech synthesis, and other voice-related functions.
static IP address - see fixed IP address
TCP/IP - see Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - A method of allowing different types of computers to communicate with each other over the Internet. When information is sent by TCP/IP, it is broken into small blocks of data called packets. The packets are sent from the sender to the receiver, where they are re-assembled in their original order.
UDP - see User Datagram Protocol
URL - see Uniform Resource Locator
Uniform Resource Locator - The standard method of displaying the name of a resource that can be accessed over the Internet, such as a FTP or World-Wide Web server, or an e-mail address.
User Datagram Protocol - A method of allowing different types of computers to communicate with each other over the Internet. When information is sent by UDP, it is broken into small blocks of data called packets. The packets are sent from the sender to the receiver, but without any checking to ensure all of the packets arrive in the correct order.
Copyright © 1995-2000 by Tribal Voice, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Permission is hereby granted to distribute this FAQ provided no modifications are made and no fee is charged for distribution. This FAQ is written and maintained by Aryeh Goretsky. Please e-mail any comments or questions about this document to powwow-faq@tribal.com.