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- Request: internet-tour
- Topic: Internet-Tour-README
- Document Updated: 27 Mar 92
- Subject: How to Get and Install the INTERNET TOUR Version 4.0.2
-
-
- How to Get and Install
- the
- INTERNET TOUR Version 4.0.2
-
-
-
- The NSF Network Service Center (NNSC), a project of the Laboratories
- business unit of the Systems and Technologies Division, has developed a
- Tour of the Internet in HyperCard (TM) format for novice network users.
- The stack has basic information including history, sample email, ftp,
- and telnet sessions, and a glossary. The Tour is intended to be a fun
- and easy way to learn about the Internet.
-
- We have included a 'Local Info' section as part of the Tour. This
- section is a place where an organization can add information relevant to
- its own group of users, for example a listing of resources at that site,
- or other, specialized information.
-
- MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN Internet-Tour.sit.hqx and
- Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx:
-
- Your Internet Tour is Version 4.0.2 if, and only if,
- 'Version 4.0.2' appears on the first screen of the Tour.
- If you do not want to open the Tour, choose the 'Get
- Info' command on the 'File' menu, with the 'Internet Tour
- 4.0.2' file selected.
-
- 1) Version 4.0.2 makes some technical changes in the
- menu bar works during the Quick Tour, which most people
- won't notice.
-
- 2) For those who take advantage of the 'Local Info'
- section: Version 4.0.2 allows you to change the name of
- the main stack.
-
- This README document contains, first, instructions for installing
- the Internet Tour, and then (for those who need them), nitty-gritty
- details about FTP.
-
-
- * * * * * *
-
- The Internet Tour is a HyperCard (TM) 2 stack for Macintosh computers.
-
- In order to run this stack, you need to have HyperCard 2. HyperCard
- 2 requires Macintosh system 6.0.5 or higher. In order for all the text
- to display properly, you should have the following screen fonts in your
- system
-
- Palatino 18, 14, 12, and 10
-
- Helvetica 14 and 12
-
- Courier 12
-
- The Palatino fonts are in the 'HyperCard Fonts' suitcase that comes
- with HyperCard; the Helvetica and Courier fonts are included with
- Macintosh system software.
-
- The Internet Tour files have been compressed and saved as a StuffIt
- 1.5.1 archive, and converted to binhex format. In order to use the
- files, you need to reverse the process. To do this, you need the
- Macintosh application StuffIt 1.5.1 or StuffIt Classic. The files take
- up about 760k when converted to their original format. (You'll need at
- least twice that much space to do the conversion.)
-
- Your have two methods of transferring the Internet Tour over the
- Internet from the NNSC to your host computer:
-
- 1) If you have access to a computer that is on the Internet and
- runs the 'ftp' facility, you can 'ftp' Internet-Tour.sit.hqx
- using a text option; then transfer it to your Mac.
-
- 2) If you have access to a computer that can exchange email with
- the Internet, you can send a message to the Info-Server on
- nnsc.nsf.net. You will receive the file split into messages small
- enough to pass through most gateways to the Internet. Use an
- editor to reassemble the original file and transfer it to your
- Mac. Both methods are described below, in detail.
-
- Use StuffIt's 'Decode binhex file' option (on the Other menu). This
- creates a new file in addition to the original one: Internet-Tour.sit.
- Next choose 'Open archive' from StuffIt's File menu. Open
- Internet-Tour.sit, and click the 'Extract' button at the bottom. This
- will create three files: Internet Tour, Internet Local Info, and
- Internet Tour doc.
-
- Good Luck!
-
- * * * * * *
-
- NITTY-GRITTY INFORMATION ABOUT FTP AND THE INFO-SERVER
- (If you already know all this, just skip the rest of this message.)
-
-
- HOW TO USE THE FTP COMMAND
-
- You can FTP the internet-tour files from nnsc.nsf.net with a
- standard anonymous FTP connection:
-
- ftp nnsc.nsf.net
-
- (If you are using the Unix operating system, the command 'ftp' must
- be typed in lowercase letters. On other operating systems, it may be
- either uppercase or lowercase.)
-
- You will see a 'banner' and be prompted for your login:
-
- Connected to nnsc.nsf.net.
- 220 nnsc.nsf.net FTP server (Version 5.59 Mon May 14 13:48:21 EDT
- 1990) ready.
- Name (nnsc.nsf.net:yourname):
-
- You should type 'anonymous', and then use the password 'guest'. The
- password will not be displayed on your terminal.
-
- Name (nnsc.nsf.net:yourname): anonymous
- Password (nnsc.nsf.net:anonymous):
- 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
- 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
- ftp>
-
- To see the FTP commands that are available to you, type ? at the
- 'ftp>' prompt.
-
- NOTE: Different operating systems have FTP commands with different
- banners and commands. Your FTP implementation may not look exactly
- like the one shown here, but it should have the same general
- functionality.
-
- 1) Type the 'status' command to check your file type.
-
- ftp> status
- Connected to nnsc.nsf.net.
- Mode: stream; Type: ascii; Form: non-print; Structure: file
- Verbose: on; Bell: off; Prompting: on; Globbing: on
- Hash mark printing: off; Use of PORT cmds: on
-
-
- 2) Set your file type to ASCII.
-
- The ASCII setting is the same as TEXT. This is the default.
- Give the command
-
- ftp> type ascii
- 200 type set to A.
-
- 3) Change directory to the 'internet-tour' directory:
-
- ftp> cd internet-tour
- 250 CWD command successful.
-
- 4) To get a listing of the files in the internet-tour directory,
- give the 'dir' command (usually equivalent to the 'ls' command on
- Unix systems).
-
- ftp> dir *
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
- 8 -rw-r--r-- 2 nnsc 7489 Nov 19 17:10 Internet-Tour-README
- 624 -rw-r--r-- 2 nnsc 629490 Nov 19 17:18 Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx
- 226 Transfer complete. ...
-
- NOTE: You must type the file names exactly as shown. Unix filenames
- are case- sensitive (i.e., it makes a difference whether the letters
- are lowercase or capitals).
-
- 5) To ftp a file, give the command
-
- ftp> get Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx
- 200 PORT command successful.
- 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx ...
- 226 Transfer complete. ...
-
-
- HOW TO ORDER THE INTERNET TOUR FROM THE NNSC INFO-SERVER
-
- 1) Send a message to 'INFO-SERVER@nnsc.nsf.net'. You do not need a
- subject field. The text of your message must be in a special
- format (this is very important), but it does not matter whether
- the letters are uppercase or lowercase.
-
- REQUEST: internet-tour Note: The 'Request:' was
- topic: INTERNET-TOUR changed in Feb 1992.
- TOPIC: HELP
- request: end
-
- 'Request: nsfnet' tells the Info-Server to look for the topics
- in the INTERNET-TOUR section of the Info-Server. 'Topic:
- internet-tour' orders BOTH of the files about the tour,
- 'Internet-Tour-README' and 'Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx'.
- 'Topic: help' orders a file with information about other
- 'Requests' and their 'Topics' in the NNSC Info-Server.
-
- 2) If you want to order ONLY the file 'Internet-Tour4.0.2.sit.hqx',
- put the following request in the text of your message:
-
- request: INTERNET-TOUR
- topic: internet-tour4.0.2.sit.hqx
- REQUEST: end
-
- File: Internet-Tour-README; 2/11/92
-