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Compiler's Note:
All of the large-scale network systems in this section require
specific configuration parameters when setting up before they
can be used. This usually involves editing more than the usual
s:preference-file or similar. Unfortunately, this means that
it's impossible to run them from the CD-ROM directly. Installation
to your Workbench is required beforehand. And a hard drive and
Kickstart 2.x is almost vital for most of them, especially when
using Newsfeeds which require large writeable spool areas.
A bit more about everything. UUCP is a news <UseNet> and Email
transfer system which relies on individual machines <often BBS
systems> calling each other regularly and exchanging mail and
news. It's really aimed at the modem community, and isn't easy
to set up, but if you want to install it, it's here.
The Amiga version of TCP/IP is ideally aimed at the Ethernet
userbase, as it's what all the Internet backbone machines use.
It's also useful for hooking Amigas to non-Amiga hardware in
the LAN environment. We @ Almathera use AmiTCP 2.3 to network
our ISO build machine <An A3000 with an A2065 card> to the
PC with the CD cutter plugged into it. On the PC side we've
got NCSA Telnet and FTP, and it works fine. At the moment it's
not easy to Ethernet the small-box Amigas <A500/1200 &tc> -
the best way to do it currently is to use AmiTCP and a SLIP
driver. Warning: CBM's Envoy and AmiTCP seem to conflict over
the use of the sana2 drivers - we have to disengage one system
before starting the other. You can expect a throughput of
around 150k/s or more when the system's up. We tend to transfer
hundreds of megabytes at a time, so we know AmiTCP is pretty
stable. AmiTCP 2.2, as found in its drawer, has already had the
2.3 patches applied to it - the unpatched version can be found
in archive form elsewhere.
SLIP - this is the complete AmigaNOS distribution as sent out
by Demon Internet Services, who are currently the cheapest
Internet providers in the UK. We use the distribution as found
here to surf the world 'Net sites with no problems. Much of
the materials on this CD were downloaded through Demon with
SLIP - it's well worth having a good look at the documentation
and startup files, as you can optimize your setup for various
tasks <FTP speed rather than News, Mail and Telnet, for example>
to gain the best bandwidth.
WorldWideWeb - The Amiga version of XMosaic, the graphically-
based Internet browser, designed for use with a TCP/IP
installation.
Mail&News: If you don't think much of the offline readers,
and bundlers that come with the various networking distributions
on this CD, here's a wider selection, along with a few more
enhancements for your data transmission systems.
DNet: Okay, okay, it's elsewhere on the CD as a ready-to-run
setup, but this is the latest version, and it also has
various options for connecting up to remote Unix machines,
and therefore, the rest of the world.
THP. Citrus '94.