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 Making  your own Connection:

                         BIG   GIRLS   DON'T   CRY


 I read the news group alt.internet. access. wanted primarily to watch
 the rapidly expanding list of Internet providers as well as the
 increasing numbers of messages requesting information. ItÆs interesting
 to see what a ôlow end tripö on the super InterState is going to cost.
 The list of requests for information to establish individual TIA (The
 Internet Adapter)  or SLIP/IP accounts is only exceeded by the
 exaggerated claims of excellence and low cost.

 At a very personal level, the Channel One bunch, at least some of us,
 have responded to the following announcement by our Sysops Brian and
 Tess Miller. It all began with this Channel One announcement.

 Date: 01-03-95 (17:09)              Number: 13
 From: SYSOP
 Subj: Free TIA Trial Info

                FREE TIA TRIALs   FREE TIA TRIALs   FREE TIA TRIAL
                thru 1.15.95  on Channel 1 - 16  lines  617-000-0000

 Here's the info you will need to try the FREE trial TIA  (The Internet
 Adaptor) graphical Internet connections on Channel 1 during the first
 two weeks of Jan. 1995.

 Phone number:               617-000-0000
 Your (client) IP address  : 000.0.0.0
 Our (server) IP address   : 000.00.00.00
 User ID:       testtia
 User Password: testtia

 Unlike the BBS Internet access which requires NO special software, IA
 requires Windows 3.1 plus any SLIP package.  Those of you ho already
 have SLIP accounts can probably use your SLIP package. For those of you
 who haven't set up SLIP yet, you are welcome to set up your own from the
 following software downloadable from the GO FREE area on Channel 1.

 TWSK20B.ZIP   Trumpet WINSOCK TIA/SLIP/PPP driver (TIA uses SLIP)
 NS16-100.EXE  Netscape 1.00 - World Wide Web viewer for Windows.
                   Free for non-commercial use.*
 QVTWS398.ZIP  Telnet/FTP/News
 NX10B2.ZIP    Net Express News Reader
              * get graphics viewers (external) from the default NCSA
               home page

 With this we were off and running.  We are all experienced modem users
 and have configured communications software.  Some have even helped new
 users while others have written scripts for their own use and friends.
 Had we not had each other and the excellent support from the Channel
 One sysops I expect some would have become discouraged and thrown in
 the towel. A smattering of messages should give you the flavor of our
 collective agony, embarassment and fumblings.

 Date: 01-04-95 (09:21)              Number: 18
 From: LOIS LAULICHT
 Subj: Configuration

 Have set up winsock and it is in my path staterment. I can access
 trumpet and dial the Channel1 tele # assigned.. What happens next at
 login?  Cannot make Netscape work. I get the error message "Undefined
 dynalink".  What am I missing?

                For those who don't know what a Winsocket is
                (twsk20b.zip) think of it as a bare bones
                communications program. This one, is dubbed
                Trumpet. Trumpet must be activated to dial
                the server ,login is completed using a script,
                and then the winsocket is minimized.

 Date: 01-04-95 (10:23)              Number: 20
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: TCPMAN Problem

 I am trying to run Trumpet Winsock 2.0 Revision B with DOS 6.20 and
 Windows for Workgroups 3.11. All my Trumpet files are in the directory
 C:\TRUMPET and this directory is in my path. When I try to run
 TCPMAN.EXE I receive the following three error messages, in order:

 1. Unable to load TCP
 2. Error--Unable to locate WINPKT or PKTDRV virtual packet driver
 3. TCPMAN caused a General Protection Fault in module WINSOCK.DLL at
 0007:04EC    I'm stuck and stumped and can't experiment using Netscape
 with a  TIA connection, as planned. Any suggestions?

 Date: 01-04-95 (18:21)              Number: 24
 From: TIM MCKENNA
 Subj: testtia,netscape,"unable to locate host"msg

 After loging in as testtia and [esc] back to slip and starting netscape
 there is what appears to be an unsuccessful search culminating in an
 "unable to locate host" message. This is what is printing over and over
 from trace WSAIsBlocking recvfrom [2,09CF:0000,1024,0,2C9F:59B2,(16)
 Any ideas would be appreciated.

 Date: 01-05-95 (16:17)              Number: 37
 From: ART LAURIE
 Subj: Phone Number

 When I dial 000-0000 I get a recording saying ask the operator for
 assistance. I tried dialing with a 1 and 1-617. I'm calling from 783
 exchange in Boston.   ?? All of the above were typical starting points
 for most of us.

 Date: 01-05-95 (20:05)              Number: 56
 From: GEORGE MEALY
 Subj: Stuff

 Apologies for what I sent to LAURIE earlier today.  QVT is now working
 fine for me -- just make sure that it can find the Trumpet files.  The
 easy way is to make the QVT directory c:\trumpet, and then do the
 setup. None of these guys have foolproof directions -- Trumpet does not
 even attempt to supply a help file!

 The Trumpet login.cmd file needs $prompt="software.".  Also, "login"
 for the $username or whatever.  I am still fiddling with it to make all
 work without attention.

 Date: 01-05-95 (21:18)              Number: 59
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: PAUL KINNALY
 Subj: Configuration

 LL>Have set up winsock and it is in my path statement. I can access
 trumpet and LL>dial the channel 1 tele # assigned.. What happens next at
 login?  Cannot make LL>netscape work.  Get the error message "Undefined
 dynalink".  What am I LL>missing? I learned later that Winsock had NOT
 been installed.

 I _believe_ one common cause of that is if an earlier version of a
 given dll has already been loaded. Any chance you have more than one
 version of winsock on the system? Or multiple versions of TCP/IP? Check
 your Windows and windows\system directories. Don't try to run trumpet
 winsock if you have another tcp/ip driver already on the system. For
 reference trumpet installs *nothing* in windows or windows\system;
 everything is in its own directory. Hope this helps!

 Date: 01-06-95 (07:33)              Number: 64
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: Installing Winsock

 Some probably stupid questions:       (No question at this point is
 stupid!) 1. Do you need to install a network card on your machine to
 install Winsock? 2. Do you need to install the Windows networking
 software on your machine to install Winsock? 3. Do you need to install a
 network card on your machine to install the Windows networking software?

 And - could anyone here who has successfully installed Winsock on their
 machine, and got Netscape to run via TIA on Channel One, list the exact
 commands in his or her autoexec.bat, config.sys, and system.ini files
 that relate directly to the process?

 Date: 01-06-95 (08:56)              Number: 68
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: Winsock Problem Solved

 OK--my Winsock installation problem was solved by Dale Smoak in a
 message on the mainboard. No matter how smart and intuitive you are, and
 no matter how much you know about computers, you probably can't solve
 this particular problem without knowing two simple settings to change.
 Grrrr...

 Now, when I doubleclick on the Netscape icon, the Trumpet icon pops up,
 there is a long, long wait, then the Netscape window opens, then there
 is another long, long wait, and then I receive a message, "Unable to
 connect to host."

 Here are the key settings in my ini file:(The correct Id numbers were
 included.)

 Date: 01-06-95 (09:28)              Number: 71
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: JAMIE WALSH
 Subj: Stuff

 LL> When you get your script files working, will you please make them
 available LL> to doe-doe's like me.  I am clearly frustrated.  I'm at
 the prompt online LL> and dead in the water.

 I haven't quite worked out my script yet, but manual login works fine.
 After manual dial and login, hit the [Esc] to enable SLIP, then minimize
 and start your Netscape. After Netscape comes up and tells you it can't
 find the host, hit the WELCOME button.

 Date: 01-06-95 (16:22)              Number: 75
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: GEORGE MEALY
 Subj: Stuff

 LL> When you get your script files working, will you please make them
 available to LL>doe-doe's like me.  I am clearly frustrated.  I'm at
 the prompt online and dead LL>in the water.  I know I need a script or
 batch file but where does it get placed?

 Sure will. I'll post the .cmd files I end up with.  Also, a text file
 with some hints on how to install the stuff reliably. By the way, for
 anyone who has JP Take Command, I almost have a neat batch file for it
 that loads TCPMAN and QVT in the right order.  Also Mosaic, if you want
 that to come up.  Still needs a bit more work on login.cmd before it
 will work right.

 Date: 01-06-95 (20:33)              Number: 86
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: PAUL KINNALY
 Subj: Configuration

 LL>1. I call up TCPMAN.EXE from the Run command.  It does its thing and I
 LL>place it in the background while it's dialing.  I get the login prompt and
 LL>nothing... I can open netscape but not much happens. I get a sense I'm
 LL>either missing a step, need an old fashioned batch file or script to
 LL>proceed.

 Okay, the first time you ran TCPMAN, you should have gotten a setup
 script for you to fill in the IP addresses, etc. Did that work okay?
 Use the settings in Jamie's posting plus the ones in INSTALL.DOC (in
 the zip file).

 If so, next thing to do is edit the login script (Dialler | Edit
 Scripts). Here's an excerpt of the opening part (corrected!):

 #trace on
 #
 # set up some strings for dialling up
 #
 if ![load $number]
  if [query $number "Enter your dial up phone number"]
    save $number
  end
 end
 if ![load $username]
  if [username "Enter your login username"]
    save $username
  end
 end
 if ![load $password]
  if [password "Enter your login password"]
    save $password
  end
 end
 $modemsetup = "&c1&k3"
 $prompt = ">"
 $userprompt = "login:"
 $passprompt = "assword:"
 $slipcmd = "slip"
 $addrtarg = "Your address is"
 $pppcmd = "ppp"

 %attempts = 10
 #
 See (about 11 lines up from here) where it says $userprompt...? Change
 the word in quotes to "login" and save the script.

 Now run Dialler | Login. The script should ask you for the phone
 number, user id, and password. Then it begins dialling.  DO NOT
 MINIMIZE YET! When the script runs to completion (connects, etc.),
 you'll see the message "Ready to start your SLIP software". Press ESC.
 You'll get a message "script aborted" then "SLIP enabled". NOW you can
 minimize Trumpet and go to Netscape. As soon as you start Netscape, it
 should immediately be trying to connect to the NCSA Home Page.

 That should do it.

       And indeed it did ! Another tip: you might want to run Trumpet
       setup again if you are having login or password error messages.My
       password entry was incorrect.

 Date: 01-07-95 (09:53)              Number: 94
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: Bingo!

 Finally--the durned thing works--and it was worth all the trouble.

 Thanks to Paul and everyone else here who helped me get Winsock and Netscape
 set up. If anyone else here needs help (Lois?), I'll be happy to take
 you by the hand and show you what small steps in sequence worked for
 me.

 It's interesting: last night I also set up a TIA account on another
 provider, and it seems that Channel One's Web connections are faster
 and snappier! (With due respect to Wayne and the other provider...It is
 because the Channel One circuits were being utilized at about 1% at
 this point.  IÆm sure the traffic from the other provider were very
 close to a traffic jam. It will happen to all of us!)The screens here
 really popped into view with extraordinary speed.

 Try going directly to the cool sites on the Netscape button, andjump
 around to a number of the cool sites. If seeing all these glorious
 screens materialize on your machine from points all around the globe
 doesn't give you the biggest "Oh wow!" experience in your life, I'll be
 surprised.

 The Web and Netscape are what computers were made for....


 Date: 01-07-95 (12:40)              Number: 96
 From: LOIS LAULICHT
 Subj: Progress

 I think it's progress!  I now get invalid login at prompt instead of
 nothing and then get cut off.  Should hardware control be enabled?(Yes!
 And setup Trumpet again)

 Date: 01-06-95 (19:58)              Number: 99
 From: J.D. KALISH

 I called (voice) today to sign up for internet service and was told it
 was still in BETA through the 15th. I tried to connect up per the online
 instructions for TESTTIA ( using the WARP slip application) but could
 not (apparantly) get a connection, although the modem "connected. My
 Warp applications seems to need NETMASK, DOMAIN NAME SERVER and DOMAIN
 NAME. The only information I had was the client IP and srver IP. Any
 help would be appreciated.

 Date: 01-07-95 (14:05)              Number: 101
 From: LOIS LAULICHT
 Subj: Logged IN!

 Finally logged on -thanks to Paul Kinnaly- All was normal but it seems
 that Netscape was unable to log onto the site.  Probably filled with
 other people !

 Date: 01-07-95 (14:11)              Number: 102
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: Progress

 LL>I think it's progress!  I now get invalid login at prompt instead of
 nothing and LL>then get cut off.  Should hardware control be enabled?

 But whatever you do, don't give up. Think of yourself trying to hack
 your way through a dense forest. All of a sudden you come to a clearing
 and what greets your eyes is the most spectacular view of the Pacific
 Ocean from the West Coast that you can possibly imagine. That is what it
 will be like when you finally manage to connect to the Web via Netscape.

 What is really amazing me is how very fast new pages from one site
 after another scattered around the world are painting themselves on my
 screen, in Windows no less. The age of the BBS is definitely
 defunct--one can navigate directories and files on the Web with much
 greater ease and speed than on any BBS.

 It's also also apparent that plain vanilla FTP and Gopher sites can't
 hold a candle to HTML sites in terms of the user interface. Everyone is
 going to have to go HTML to survive on the Web.

 When you finally connect, try jumping to http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/
 and use that as a base from which to explore the Web and add cool
 bookmarks to your bookmark file.

 Date: 01-07-95 (13:16)              Number: 103
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: The Web

 A few questions:

 1) Is there any easy way to convert Lynx bookmark files to Netscape
 bookmark files? Or to import Lynx bookmark files into Netscape bookmark
 files? 2) Is the complete documentation for Netscape available on
 Channel One? 3) Does anyone have any good pointers to movie files--AVI
 or MPG--on the Web that will demonstrate the Web's multimedia potential?

 And a remark:

 If you are trying to get Winsock, Netscape and TIA set up, don't be
 confused by the fact that MCOM, the home page, seems to be down or
 inaccessible this morning (and perhaps this afternoon). Try clicking on
 "STOP" and then opening another address--any address. I had no trouble
 jumping to Microsoft, the CIA, and Project Gutenberg in quick
 succession. Try opening, for instance,      http://www.microsoft.com

 Once you get a look at Netscape in action on a decent machine, you will
 never look back. I guarantee it. This is the minimum acceptable level
 in the online world these days--everyone will have to catch up real
 quick or look dowdy and fade away into the cybergraveyard. The Web and
 Netscape rule.

 Date: 01-07-95 (15:38)              Number: 107
 From: PAUL KINNALY
 Subj: Progress

 LL>I think it's progress!  I now get invalid login at the prompt
 instead of nothing and then get cut off.  Should hardware control be
 enabled?

 Edit the "login.cmd" script as per my message to you last night. If
 you're using a high speed modem (14.4 or 28.8) Hardware flow control is
 generally preferable.

 Date: 01-07-95 (15:54)              Number: 108
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: GEORGE MEALY
 Subj: Stuff

 I seem to have simplified things about as much as seems plausible.  My
 results are uploaded as TESTTIA.ZIP.  Use hardware handshaking.

 Date: 01-07-95 (21:14)              Number: 115
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: BRIAN MCGOVERN(Channel1 Unix System administrator)

 Subj: Problems with login.

 Lois, I unfortunately have missed parts of your conversation, but it
 appears youÆre having problems connecting. The settings I use for TIA
 are: 57600 baud, 8 data, 1 stop, no parity, hardware flow control,
 X/ON X/Off ignored, v.32 and/or v.34, depending on modem.

 If you have problems even seeing the Channel1 login prompt, let me
 know. I'll try to ask the right questions to get you up and working.

 To: ALL
 From: TIM MIRANDA
 Subj: New Versions of OS/2 Warp Internet apps

 WebExplorer/2, the WWW browser for OS/2 Warp, has finally gone out of
 beta testing mode, and is now at v1.00. Newsreader/2 is now at version
 1.09.

 Both can be retrieved via "Retrieve Software Updates" under the "IBM
 Internet Connection of OS/2" folder in Warp.

 Date: 01-08-95 (00:15)              Number: 120
 From: MARK CORDONNIER
 Subj: Questions.

           (Here Mark expresses our collective gratitude to one another)

 After many hours of struggling with Netscape and Trumpet I have finally
 gotten it to work properly. I need to say a big thank you to many people
 who have helped. Thanks to Jamie Walsh for her many insightful answers
 that have helped guide me to the right track. Thanks to Wayne McGuire
 who was experiencing many of the same problems I was encountering with
 Trumpet. You saved me much typing. Thanks to Paul Kinnaly for fixing my
 login script. Funny how changing one little word can make everything hum
 along. Thanks also to Phred for his answers. (Some were even helpful
 Phred :) Also thanks to Lois Laulicht for her messages that also pointed
 me in the right direction. Funny how much a person can learn by just
 reading.  Thanks one and all.

 Now for a couple of question from me. Will upgrading to a 28.8 modem
 help me any or am I limited to a 14.4 modem? Any idea on your pricing
 structure? Also any help with the long distance bills? ( an 800
 number)Please give me one or the other but both are killing my wife.
 She hates the large phone bills .

 In netscape there is a command under file that says mail document.If I
 choose this option it brings up my name in the from field and then asks
 for a to field. Probably a stupid question but will this actually email
 the current page I am on to whoevers email address I put in that field?

 Date: 01-08-95 (08:17)              Number: 125
 From: LOIS LAULICHT
 Subj: I need a reaction from my

 Paul Kinnaly and I are presently getting together a piece by Harry Kriz
 from the Virginia Tech Library service(w/his blessing of course) for
 WindoWatch...(next issue - late but coming) He focuses on setting up
 connections from a network but much of what he has to say I think will
 be interesting to single PC users. He discusses software and where it
 can be found. ftp addresses etc. Paul is going to link the discussion of
 main topics to the cited references so that we end up with a useful
 reference.

 What we have gone through here this past week is happening in many
 other places.  I want some feedback on how all of you would feel about
 my capturing these messages of the last week and publishing the more
 salient with prudent editing.  Real names if you say ok or aliases?

 This has been a very helpful experience. Any volunteers to do the
 editing job on these messages.  Usual rate of course! An electronic hug
 and kiss!

 Date: 01-08-95 (11:05)              Number: 128
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: Progress

 LL>Got on this AM early while the rest of you were sleeping.  It is
 everything you LL>are saying and more.

 Congratulations! I demoed Netscape via Channel One's TIA line to a
 number of friends and family members yesterday, and blew their minds
 within a few minutes. We jumped from the Central Intelligence Agency, to
 Microsoft, to Harvard University, to Boston Movie Listings, and by then
 their jaws were hanging open and they were exclaiming, I want it! They
 really thought it was unbelievable. Then we did some browsing and
 jumping in the Whole Internet Catalog, did some searching and jumping in
 Webcrawler and Webworm, and then they really flipped out with
 excitement.

 >>WM>The age of the BBS is definitely defunct--one can navigate
 directories and files on the Web with much greater ease and speed than
 on any BBS. LL>Wayne...we were doing this from a BBS...remember?  Now a
 very special BBS with lots of skill and foresight...but a BBS
 nonetheless.

 Nein, nein, Lois! This TIA account is running on a Unix host, not a
 BBS. There is no way you could run this experiment from a DOS BBS that I
 know of. Channel One needs to transfer all their assets over to a
 Unix-based HTML- framed platform as soon as possible--yesterday, in
 fact. BBS's are dead, period. Sure, they'll hang in there for a time,
 but the big game now is on the Web, and you can't build state of the art
 Web pages on a BBS like PCBoard or any other DOS BBS that I know of. All
 that BBS stuff, including the QWK standards and software, looks antique
 and musty. The BBS era is over!

 Date: 01-07-95 (17:16)              Number: 129
 From: MAURICIO GIL
 Subj: Winsock config

 This is The Network Configuration Screen in Winsock Trumpet.

 IP address:    IP ID
 Netmask:       255.255.255.0
 Name server:                Default Gateway:
 Domain Suffix: <blank>         Time server:       <blank>
 Packet vector: 00     MTU: 1500   TCP RWIN: 4096   TCP MSS: 1460
 Demand Load Timeout (secs):  5    TCP RTO MAX:  60
        'X' Internal Slip   ' ' Internal PPP
 SLIP Port:  1
 Baud Rate:  38400
 'X' Hardware Handshake
 Van Jacobson CSLIP compression
 Online Status Detection = 'None'

 This is the screen of Trumpet Winsock when I use: 'Dialler' Login.

 SLIP ENABLED
 Internal SLIP driver COM1 Baud rate = 38400 Hardware handshaking
 IP buffers = 32
 My IP = 000.0.0.0 netmask = 255.255.255.0 gateway = 000.0.00.00
 Executing script c:\tia\winsock\login.cmd. Type <esc> to abort
 SLIP DISABLED
 atz
 OK
 at&c1&k3
 OK
 atdt6000000
 CONNECT 14400/ARQ/V32/LAPM/V42BIS
 Channel1 Communications
 Internet Services
 login:

 At this time I can't enter the login name nor the password. So, what am
 I doing wrong ? ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGG!! ( -A very normal reaction - !)

 Date: 01-08-95 (05:27)              Number: 135
 From: LOIS LAULICHT
 Subj: Surfing the Net

 Many thanks to those who helped me get started using the new TIA
 service. I spent an hour "out there" having a great time! It was a
 perfect connection using Netscape with no problems at all! Given all
 the fits and starts the software functioned flawlessly. Perhaps
 starting one's day at 3AM does have virtue because the line was clean
 and the graphics altho a bit slow on my monitor (plain vanilla) were
 perfect. I bopped all over the map and it was wonderful.

 I have never used a graphical surf board before and it sure beats
 straight text.

 A couple questions.  The links between servers I assume are flawless
 because they have been prearranged and are on dedicated machines?

 ***MUST EDIT MY PRIOR IGNORANCE. The servers make port calls as opposed
 to traditional logins.  They each know each others identities and it is
 not flawless when crowded but under optimum conditions...very fast.

 How often are these pages changed? Is there a way to load a prewritten
 list of URL's into the software?  If so ...how? The Channel One home
 page was quite improved from the original simple and text files  I saw
 some months back. Congratulations!

 Date: 01-08-95 (10:20)              Number: 140
 From: WAYNE MCGUIRE
 Subj: Netscape

 1. When I click on newsgroups in Netscape, I receive the error message
 "Unable to locate host." Is there a way to read newsgroups under
 Netscape? 2. How does one play AU files directly from Netscape? Has
 anyone here configured Netscape to play any multimedia files, audio or
 audiovisual?

 Date: 01-08-95 (14:32)              Number: 147
 From: TIM MIRANDA
 Subj: Warp Telnet & Zmodem downloads: it can be done!

 The major problem I found with using Warp IAK was that I couldn't
 download anything in a telnet session. But that is fixed! The process is
 a pain, but this is what I did.

 Connect to Channel 1 through a regular phone call (disable slip
 connection first), use yer favorite comm program, and dowlnoad P204.ZIP.
 Keep that in a temp dir until you do the following FTP: FTP
 kermit.columbia.edu cd/kermit/archives set mode to BINARY (type BINARY)
 GET cko190.zip Unzip it to a temp dir, and type INSTALL. After install,
 change to the dir you installed to, and unzip P204.ZIP into that  dir.

 There's a file in the CKERMIT dir called CKERMOD.INI.  Edit that, and
 in the "external protocol" section, add the line:   take ckop200.ini

 You are all set now.  Just run CKERMIT.CMD from the OS/2 prompt,or
 click on the C-Kermit icon.  To connect to channel 1, just type TELNET
 bbs.channel1.com from the C-kermit prompt.  Select "U" for your transfer
 protocol, and try to download something.  When the download starts, hit
 ALT-X, and type RZ.  It will download.  Refer to the INF file that comes
 with C-Kermit and the P204.DOC if I just confused the hell out of you.
 It explains it all. A walk in the park, Tim!

 Date: 01-08-95 (13:54)              Number: 148
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: MAURICIO GIL
 Subj: Winsock config

 Problem solved. It has something to do with the Automatic login. I use
 manual login and eveything seems to work perfectly.

 Date: 01-08-95 (14:29)              Number: 149
 From: TINA PFEIFFER
 Subj: SLIP and PPP

 I'm trying to use Mosaic with the Slip-PPP-Support. I downloaded the
 twsk20.b.zip which is the Trumpet Winsock but I don't know exactly what
 I have to write in the setup-programm. Another question. When I dial in
 with Winsock and it tells that the SLIP is enabled, what do I have to
 do with Mosaic then, just start it or are there some other procedures.

 Date: 01-08-95 (15:17)              Number: 151
 To: LOIS LAULICHT
 From: BRIAN MCGOVERN
 Subj: Problems with login. -( A genuine pearl from our new Unix Sysop!

 Hi, Lois. Actually, all of my TIPs are on a per application/problem
 basis. Unfortunately, most writers on such topics make SLIP and PPP
 connections seem easy, because they've had a technician do the setup,
 and they're reviewing the results. Its actually quite more complex.

 Anyhow, feel free to ask any questions you may have. If you're running
 some obscure shareware, I'll see what I can do about downloading it and
 finding the answers for you.

 And a FAQ that we could post would be great

 Date: 01-07-95 (15:49)              Number: 154
 From: MARGO PALMER
 Subj: Any MAC SLIP users out there? We need help.

 I've tested the SLIP, TIA, & PPP for the Mac.  So far, I've found that
 I can connect to TIA, but as soon as Mosaic attempt to connect to a
 remote server, I drop the connection.  I can maintain a connection
 using PPP, but Mosaic comes back with "Unable to Connect to Remote
 Host".  The remote host is the home site of the Mosaic browser...
 Anyway, I've tried numerous settings, but no luck yet. Mark R (Mark
 White) contacted me, but all I could do was share his frustration--the
 same thing happens to him with TIA (and the Mac and Mosaic).  Do you
 have any Mac users who are successful (100%) yet?

 Date: 01-07-95 (15:51)              Number: 156
 From: MARK R
 Subj: Any MAC SLIP users out there? Need help.

 I'm going to try TIA (haven't yet) and SLIP hasn't provided me the
 "way" through the net either!  What software are you using?  How have
 you configured it?  What OS are you running under and what kind of Mac
 are you running it on?  I have lots of questions too.  Do you have a
 clue about the three different Server Classes in MacTCP?  A,B,C?  I'm
 trying out C...

 Well, sounds like you're all having the same problems I am! I feel much
 better! Less dumb anyway. Well, lets see.. I'm using MacTCP of course,
 and MacSLIP. The way I understand it, TIA allows you to forego PPP, as a
 matter of fact I think it allows people with shell accounts (as opposed
 to SLIP or PPP accounts) to get the full functionality of SLIP without
 having a SLIP account. On the other hand, I've never had a SLIP or PPP
 account so I could'nt tell you what's the difference! I'm running system
 7.1 on a Quadra 700. I have MacTCP setup with a IP address of 000.0.0.0,
 this I got from the TIA Mac companion (I can tell you where I got it if
 you're interested) As for the rest of the configuration, I haven't a
 clue! Whatever I'm doing doesn't work! My hunch is that we need some
 info, such as domain name and class, from the service provider. I'm
 damned if I can figure out who to ask! Jamie told me to ask you. If you
 don't know, then I wonder who the heck does!? I think if I could get
 MacTCP working right then getting MacSLIP to operate would follow.

 Date: 01-09-95 (14:41)              Number: 174
 To: ALL
 From: BURT MODEL
 Subj: netscape

 I finally got Netscape up and running but am having some difficulty
 connecting. Clicking on the Netscape icon causes Trumpet winsock to load
 minimized and dial. The modem connects to the host modem and Netscape
 loads. All good so far, but moments after Netscape loads, the modem
 drops carrier! Trumpet redials about thirty seconds later and this time
 I have a live connection to WWW when the modems connect. I've checked
 the s7 register (wait for connect) in my modem (a USR v.34 Courier) and
 bumping it from 60 to 90 made no difference. Help here will be greatly
 appreciated.

 Also, when I attempt to Telnet to Channel 1 at Channel 1's home page
 I'm told that I have no viewer selected. Could someone fill me in on
 exactly what I need to do here? Thanks to all of you for your help in
 getting up and running, especially George Mealy for posting your
 configs. I dropped them in, changed the com port, and presto!

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 Moral to this story if there is one..... Take up golf! Nah-I'm kidding!
 Understand that this is very tough stuff--- until you're successful and
 then the light miraculously  breaks through. When working with
 computers.... just be ready for the next challenge.

 For those working alone.  Form a loose group of buddies for moral
 support.  You are neither stupid or slow.  The bloody computers are
 literal and demand their danged dots and dashes with Unix refusals to
 recognize the number sign and more! Further they are punitive and
 either blink at you with nonrepsonsive regularity or toss you into the
 drink with nary a backward glance.


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