Starting your TCP connection

Before you can access documents from the World Wide Web, you must start your TCP connection with the Internet. The connection is maintained by the TCP package you are using, also known as TCP stack.

You can start your TCP stack yourself before you start AWeb, or while AWeb is running. To make life easier, you can even let AWeb start your TCP stack when it is needed for the first time. For example, if you are browsing through local documents, and then follow a hyperlink to some document out there on the World Wide Web, then AWeb could start the TCP stack automatically.

To use this feature, you have to configure the start script (or program) for your TCP package.

If you have configured the stop script (or program) for your TCP stack, AWeb can terminate the TCP stack automatically after you quit AWeb. Note that it does so only if AWeb has started the TCP stack before, and only after asking for your permission to do so.
If you started the TCP stack yourself, AWeb will not terminate it.

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