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- From: colin@leprechaun.com.au (Colin Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AmiTCP/Connection HELP!!!
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 03:27:44 GMT
- Organization: Leprechaun Software
- Message-ID: <4l71lm$6k4@oznet03.ozemail.com.au>
- References: <829395239.18780@dalfaber.demon.co.uk>
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- >Ive been using a 486sx25 for access, but have been extremely frustrated with the machines
- >response, and so.... since I'm much happier infront of WB3 anyway.. I thought Id
- >get some connection software for my MigMog.
- >That was difficult enough... finding out WHAT I needed.
- >So I got AmiTCP..... now can somebody please tell me what I need to do to get onto
- >my access provider with it?! I ftp'd the official Demon AmigaDIS software, but
- >that is ancient and very buggy, it keeps telling me that a dialup is already in progress,
- >even if I disconnect the modem, throw it a cupboard, in another room. (unplugged!)
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- >So basically, could some please tell me... how I can use my modem to phone up my
- >provider, and be able to do all my fave things.. news, FTP. Ive already got Aweb, and it
- >looks utterly amazing.
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- Yeah getting AmiTCP online is a bit of a pain - I was rather surprised
- that it didn't have any built in dialling software with it... Have a
- look in Aminet for a program in the tcp directory called netdial.rexx.
- It just dials in to your provider and waits for strings such as
- "password" or "name" and then sends the relevent info to it. You'll
- have to change it a little to work with your provider too... There's
- probably a way easier way to do it than this but I'm new to the net
- and I couldn't find anything else...
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- I think that for a bodge way of getting on you can just dial up with a
- comms package and log in manually, and then quit the comms package,
- leaving the modem on line and starting AmiTCP with the bin/startnet
- script. (If you've got a dynamic IP address you'll have to edit your
- bin/startnet script before starting AmiTCP, whichever way you log on).
- These ways of logging on are pretty lame but the Amiga *really* needs
- a lot of work done on it's Internet software.
-
- If anyone out there knows of an eaisier way of logging on than messing
- around with kludgy ARexx scripts, let us know about it!
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- Hitman/Code HQ
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