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- Compiler's Note:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- WorldWideWeb - The Amiga version of XMosaic, the graphically-
- based Internet browser, designed for use with a TCP/IP
- installation.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- THP. Citrus '94.
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