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July 11, 1988
Notes on the DK2GG Atari ST version of KA9Q's TCP/IP
Fred Goldstein k1io
Here's a short version of the DK2GG "plug and play" adaptation of
the Phil Karn et al Internet software package. It appears to be
mainly based on version 871225.4 with additions from 871225.16.
Dan Frank's NET/ROM support is also included.
This abridged archive doesn't contain everything. The release
notes (Atari specific) are included, but full documentation is
not; in general it follows the common instructions. No mailer
is included: The disk I received had a corrupt file header for
BM.TOS so I couldn't even copy it. No editor is included, either;
BM.TOS looks for MG.TOS (MicroGnuEmacs). Note that the file NET.RC
is the one read by NETNR.TOS when it starts up; AUTOEXEC.NET
is included because it contains the descriptions of the various
standard parameters.
This appears to be workable but temporary; when a newer version
is received (or the mailer), I'll post it.
fred
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December 2, 1988
Howard Chu hyc@umix.cc.umich.edu
This version of NET has been fixed up a great deal to work with
Mark Williams C 3.0.6. My copies of many of the source files
were corrupt on receipt (they passed the ARC CRC, so I presume
they were damaged before archiving...) so I had to patch several
files with a PC version of the sources. (Lucky me, working on
871225.25 instead of .4 or .16...) A few consequences to note:
Most of the netrom source files were damaged. The PC
sources had nothing comparable, so I removed netrom from this
binary. The AX25 and KISS support also was interwoven with the
netrom stuff, so none of that is compiled in either. What's
left? Just Unix SLIP and MIT SLFP. I ported the SLFP code from
the PC version written by Bill Doster. (Fairly easy port...)
[FYI - Merit supports dial-up SLFP, which means anyone in Michigan
can get on the Internet with just a PC (er... ST), a modem,
KA9Q, and a local phone call.... I dunno who around CMU or MIT
uses the protocol.]
New things that aren't talked about anywhere else:
I added support for the "remote" server. This allows issuing
a command to exit or reboot remotely. (Simple stuff, though I
haven't actually used it yet.)
I made numerous changes to the ST specific code, almost
entirely contained in ST.C. One noticable change is that tracing
to the alternate screen now works with both 25 and 50 line displays.
NET looks for an environment variable NROWS, which Gulam will
automatically set if you change the default screen size.
The command shell is searched for in the environment
variable SHELL, which must have a fully qualified pathname. If
not found, I used "\bin\gulam.prg" as the default. (Would probably
be a good idea to make the exec search down the path, I was just
too lazy to get it done now.)
The net.rc files provided didn't describe any of the ST
specifics of the attach command very well. It's important to note
that you probably don't want to use "AUX: 1" as your address/vector
pair - they both refer to the same device. Maybe this is necessary
for AX25, but for SLFP the auto-echo is a big kill. Also, for SLFP,
you can add an 8th field to the attach command for a string to send
out the serial port before establishing an IP session. (Obviously
this is intended for dialing a modem...) I noticed that this didn't
always successfully dial my modem, so you'll probably have to give
it a few tries too... If you get tired of waiting for the SLFP
session to get established, hit the F10 key.
Hmm... That's about all I can think of right now. Have fun...
-- Howard