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- Hi Peter, Graz, 18.2.1988
-
- This disk contains the TCP/IP software. All files are packed in
- ARC archives. For the case that you don't have the ARC program I've
- also copied my version to the disk. I got this software from Dieter
- Stoll (Bix: dstoll) and he, in turn, got it from the guy who ported
- it to OS-9. Here is the translation of couple of comments of the
- original author :
-
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-
- - The configuration file NET.STARTUP contains 'attach' statements
- for each device. On the PC these statements specify absolute I/O
- addresses. Under OS-9 the address is simply the terminal number
- which is to be used for communication. So, for instance, specifying
- and address of 0x0001 will cause /t1 to be used, 0x0002 will cause
- /t2 to be used and so forth.
-
- - The current implementation doesn't contain the ethernet stuff. It is
- said to be working under MS-DOS though, and should'nt be very hard to
- implement.
-
- - One problem at the time is, that the 'net' program was originally
- written for Mess-Dos and thus was'nt intented to run in the background.
- So, at the time there are two workarounds :
-
- 1.) Use the supplied /TB device descriptor & drivers (directory /BUFF)
- to login a second time :
-
- com /tb
-
- and start the net program.
-
- 2.) Start net with : net <>>>/nil &
- But I don't know if this works in every case.
-
- - To test the stuff you can try to connect to your own machine. In the
- supplied configuration this would be (only user entries shown) :
-
- $ net
- net> ftp m68graz
- user anonymous
- pass
-
- ... now ftp subcommands should work - for instance
-
- dir
- ls
- get
- quit
-
- The BM mailer can be checked by sending mails to yourself. Example :
-
- $ bm
- "tom"> s
- To: tom@m68graz
- Subject: Tralala
-
- Message tralala
-
- If the NET program runs in the background you should receive the mail
- after a certain time (did'nt figure out the exact time yet). You can
- also try to manually trigger the connection with the SMTP command in
- the NEt program :
-
- $ net
- net> smtp
- net> exit
-
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-
- I hope that you find it useful -- Tom
-