PowWow is an unique personal communications program for the Internet. It offers two main functions: a personal communicator, and a conferencing system.
As a personal communicator it allows you to call your friends, chat with up to seven (7) people by keyboard or voice, show a picture of yourself, send and receive files, play MS-Windows .WAV format sound files, and browse the World-Wide Web together as a group. All you need to know to communicate with another PowWow user is his or her email address. PowWow will automatically connect with them, provided PowWow is running on their computer.
In conference mode, PowWow allows you to set your computer up as a conference server and up to fifty (50) people can connect with you. You may set yourself up as a temporary conference, or a permanent conference. You may choose to be the conference moderator or you can create a full-time non-moderated conference.
PowWow runs in personal communicator and conference modes at the same time. If you are hosting a conference or connected to one, you can still talk with other people running PowWow and use all the personal communicator functions.
PowWow comes with a file named HISTORY.TXT which contains late-breaking news and other information not covered in the PowWow Users Guide. Please check this file before continuing.
The file README.1ST gives step-by-step instructions on how to install PowWow for the first time or upgrade an existing installation.
A copy of the PowWow Frequently-Asked Questions Guide is also included. The document is a HTML document containing the answers to many common questions about PowWow. The name of this file is PW-FAQ.HTM and it can be viewed with any World-Wide Web browser.
The latest version of PowWow, along with technical support and information about Tribal Voice, may be found on the Tribal Voice World-Wide Web server at http://www.tribal.com/powwow.
Running PowWow
To allow other people to connect to you, you must have PowWow running. After WinSock has been initialized, double-click on the PowWow icon. A dialog box will appear requesting your Local User I.D. and password. Enter your email address as your Local User I.D. You may choose any password of up to seven (7) characters. Select OK. The PowWow main screen will appear. At the bottom of the screen the message "attempting to register with PowWow server" will appear followed "Registration accepted by Server" if your Internet connection is properly functioning. PowWow is now active and ready for connections to or from other PowWow users. If you are not intending to immediately connect with someone, minimize PowWow so it remains active in case someone wishes to connect with you.
