¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢ MINUTES OF OHAUG MEETING 6/20/98¢¢¢ Before the official opening of the¢ meeting, while waiting for Jack, ALAN¢ SHARKIS read an e-mail from PATRICK¢ MULVEY. Pat was summoned to Houston¢ for the weekend by his employer and¢ regretted not being able to attend¢ and to meet FRANK WALTERS.¢¢ JACK GEDALIUS opened the meeting by¢ welcoming everyone including members¢ of the Suffolk Atari Club (LIAUG). ¢ He introduced FRANK WALTERS of Panama¢ City, FL, a member who is here¢ visiting his sister in Rockville¢ Centre. JACK took a list of the¢ other members and guests attending.¢¢ TREASURER REPORT:¢ RON FETZER says we're in the black.¢¢ DEMONSTRATIONS:¢ REBECCA GEDALIUS, Jack's daughter,¢ brought her notebook PC and showed us¢ its general characteristics.¢¢ JACK then discussed a program on CD-¢ ROM, Monarch Notes, which he brought¢ with him to run on Rebecca's machine.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS did an impromptu demo of¢ XFormer '98, which ran on Rebecca's¢ notebook. He had XLENT Word¢ Processor and then DOS 2.5 on the¢ screen.¢¢ Alan then gave a talk on the various¢ parts of the Internet that are¢ accessable through NassauNet --¢ starting with Internet e-mail for¢ mailing lists and private mail to ¢ individuals and groups. He then went¢ on to explain how Nassau Net's e-mail¢ system (PINE) saves space because it¢ saves lists of e-mail addresses for¢ you and you offers a full-screen¢ editor for your e-mail.¢¢ Alan also spent some time talking¢ about Usenet, which is made up of¢ public discussion groups (newsgroups)¢ on a varety of topics. There are now¢ more than 60,000 available¢ newsgroups. The one that is most¢ important to us is:¢¢ comp.sys.atari.8bit.¢¢ Usenet newsgroups are also available¢ on NassauNet in PINE.¢¢ Alan then discussed World Wide Web¢ browsing will be organized by sites &¢ pages with links to other pages to¢ help you research further. He¢ explained how NassauNet offers us¢ LYNX, a text-based WWW browser that¢ can also handle Gopher and Telnet. ¢ Each site is accessed by giving its¢ URL (universal resource locater). ¢ For example, LIAUG's page (when it¢ comes back up) can be accessed by¢ typing:¢¢ http://www.liaug.com.¢¢ Alan then brought up a way to access¢ bulletin boards (Telnet) which he¢ will show us.¢¢ Next RON FETZER and Alan Sharkis¢ demoed how to use the Atari 8-bit¢ with the internet via Nassau Net with¢ the Ice-T program. We looked at e-¢ mail and comp.sys.atari.8-bit with¢ PINE and at www.emulators.com with¢ LYNX. Since the trend among WWW¢ sites is now heavily graphical, it is¢ important to maintain heavily text-¢ oriented sites for 8-bitters.¢¢ Next FRANK WALTERS demoed version¢ 5.20 of TextPro. He showed us how it¢ can access four banks of memory in¢ addition to the main bank,¢ demonstrated how macros are¢ constructed, showed us a few of his¢ own, and went on to demonstrate his¢ CX-85 Numeric Keypad handler for¢ TextPro. Frank made copies of some¢ of his work available to both the¢ LIAUG and OHAUG disk librarians. ¢ They were already taking orders for¢ copies by the time Frank sat down!¢ ALAN SHARKIS then sent an e-mail¢ message to some of the members who¢ were not present (Pat and TOM¢ ANDREWS) using the carbon copy¢ feature, and demonstrated how to use¢ Telnet through LYNX to get to a¢ FidoNet BBS. By typing:¢¢ telnet://docsplace.dyn.ml.org,¢¢ he was able to locate, read , and¢ respond to messages in the FidoNet¢ Atari National Echo. He also posted¢ a message there from all who attended¢ today's meeting.¢¢ ALAN SHARKIS then spoke about sending¢ our flyers with membership¢ applications to JOHN HARDIE for the¢ Las Vegas show.¢¢ There was a short demonstration of¢ the latest disk from Tyne and Wear¢ Atari User Group in England. The¢ disk went into our library (number¢ unknown.)¢¢ Then everyone submitted their updated¢ e-mail addresses for inclusion in our¢ newsletter.¢¢ THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON SATURDAY,¢ JULY 18, 1998.¢¢ o=o=o=o=o=¢¢¢
