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Acornet 0.12
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3 May 1996
Acornet is a suite of software which will allow you to use the Internet. It
is not a single application, but a convenient meshing together of a number of
applications written by many people. The Help file (see below) contains full
details.
Licence
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Generally the applications comprising Acornet are Freeware: that is, they may
be freely distributed in their original form so long as no charge (other than
nominal cost of media and carriage) is made, but the copyright remains with
the authors. But see the documentation on each application for precise terms
and conditions.
The Acornet collection as a whole is 'CiderWare', which is a super-set of
'FreeWare'. All the conditions of FreeWare apply, but with the added
stipulation that if you bump into the original author (Phillip Temple) in a
pub, you are obligated to buy him a decent pint of Scrumpy. Should Scrumpy
not be availably, a suitable decent dry cider may be substituted instead.
The software is provided in the hope that it will be useful, but without any
warranty of any kind.
Requirements
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RISC OS 3.10 or greater.
Probably 4Mb RAM.
A hard disk with ~10Mb free (about 4Mb for initial installation, then to
allow space for news, email and Web cache).
A modem.
An account with an Internet Service Provider (e.g. Demon) which allows access
via a dial-up SLIP link. (Note: there is a Shareware PPP driver available
for use with FreeNet, written by Sergio Monesi, but it is not included in
this version of Acornet.)
Installation
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Unpack the archive into a directory (folder) on your hard disk. It is
recommended that you use either the root directory or a first level
subdirectory, This is because Acornet and its component applications use
many levels of directory, and if the full filenames so generated are too long
it may cause problems.
If you have received Acornet as a multi-part archive (e.g. split over a
number of floppy disks), extract the contents of each archive into the same
directory to merge the parts together.
Updating your System folder
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Run the SysMerge application. Drag your existing !System into the window,
followed by the !System which you extracted from the Acornet archive.
Note: If your machine is fitted with RISC OS 3.50 or later (e.g. a Risc PC or
A7000), your master !System folder is found inside the !Boot application.
Do a SHIFT double-click SELECT on !Boot to open it as a Filer window and then
double-click on the Resources folder to open that; inside you will find
!System. The System update feature of the built-in Configure utility, which
normally runs when you double-click on !Boot, is faulty and will not perform
the update correctly.
Once you have updated your !System, you must SHUT DOWN and RESTART the
machine in order to kill any old versions of modules which may be in memory.
If you don't, things may not work as expected, and may even cause the machine
to lock up.
Help information
----------------
Information on various aspects of Acornet may be obtained by clicking MENU
over the !Acornet application and selecting the App.'!Acornet'⇨Help menu item.
When Acornet is running, the help can also be accessed from the 'i' icon on
the control panel.
Setting up
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Double-click on the !Acornet application. After few seconds of
initialisation, you will be put straight into the configuration utility,
NetConfig. Follow the instructions to supply the various details as
required. (When you have done this set-up, on future occasions, running the
application will launch you straight into Acornet itself.)
Versions
--------
The versions of the component applications included in this release of
Acornet are:
* FreeNet 1.02
* SlipDial 0.40
* SerialDev Rev 11 7/7/95
* ArcWeb 1.39
* Freterm 0.12b
* Newsbase 0.55c
* TTFN 0.36
* Groups 0.14
* FreeNews 1.01
* POP 0.97b,
* FreeSMTP 1.03
* FreeFTP 0.45beta
* Ping 0.13
* Finger 0.13
* NetConfig 2.2
--
Colin Hogben (colin@nyphot.demon.co.uk)