InfoMagic Internet Tools 1995 April/Internet Tools.iso/dos_win/winsock/maillist/94-03.Z/94-03/text0175.txt

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>From the abridged README.TXT file:

THE CCCD INTERNET AUTOINSTALLER PACKAGE (v1.2, March 14, 1994)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome.  This package will install (in just 5 minutes per end-user PC)
FTP Software's PC/TCP TCP/IP stack and a complete suite of winsock-compliant
applications on a PC that is already running Banyan VINES.  You will be
prompted by the autoconfigure script to enter a variety of configuration
values, but if you've taken the time to customize the scripts to your site's
environment, the only value you'll have to manually type is the numeric
TCP/IP address.  The rest is simply a matter of pressing ENTER to accept the
derived defaults.

This package is intended to make life easier for people faced with
installing Internet applications on tens or hundreds of PCs.  If you are a
standalone user, concerned with just your own PC, you might not want to
bother.

In order to make this package very smart about guessing defaults, many
CCCD-specific assumptions have been hard-coded.  I ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE
THAT NON-CCCD USERS WILL HAVE TO CAREFULLY PERUSE & EDIT AUTOCONF.SH,
PCTCP.BAT, INTERNET.BAT AND POSSIBLY OTHERS.  DO NOT BLINDLY RUN THIS WITHOUT
MODIFICATION.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

The environment here is DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, Banyan 4.10(1) thru 5.52(5),
PC/TCP 2.1 and 2.2.  I make no promises for anything else, but welcome
suggestions that promote version independence.  It should be easily hackable
to support different TCP/IP stacks or network systems.  If you undertake
such a hack, let me know so I can integrate the changes back into my
original version.

All commercial Internet clients have been omitted in the external
distribution of this package.  Everything remaining is freeware.  Feel
free to let this stuff go forth and propagate as long as you include this
original README.TXT file.

You can reach the author for praise or condemnation or suggestions at:

        Coast Community College District
        District Information Services
        ATTN: Mark Bixby
        1370 Adams Avenue
        Costa Mesa, CA  92626
        [phone] voice
        [e-mail]

CHANGE HISTORY
--------------

1.2     March 14, 1994

        - Documented distribution locations for awk, ksh, sed, and the PC
          speaker driver.

        - Removed support for BCGOPHER.

        - Added support for SERWEB.

        - Added support for PC/TCP FTPSRV.

        - Created new interdoc.grp for Windows access to README docs.

        - Created new intersrv.grp for Internet Server applications.

        - Moved checks for Reflection existence from pctcp.bat to
          internet.bat.

        - Created newpctcp.bat to distribute new versions of pctcp.ini.

        - Created newsock.bat to distribute new versions of winsock.dll.

        - internet.bat now automatically adds the program groups to
          progman.ini if they don't already exist.

1.1     February 7, 1994

        - Package renamed from baninsxx.zip to inetaixx.zip.  Niftier name.
          Not tied to Banyan.  Could easily evolve to handle Novell, etc.

        - autoconf.sh now offers to obtain configuration defaults from a
          previously saved C:\autoconf.sed.  End-users should now be able
          to re-install the entire package to obtain the latest & greatest
          set of clients.

        - Commented out the "swap" statement at the top of autoconf.sh.

        - pctcp.bat now suggests setting the TZ variable in autoexec.bat.

        - Support added for WRQ's Reflection for Windows.

        - Support added for Eudora.

        - Support added for the Hamburg Gopher Server (go4ham).

        - Support removed for WsFinger.  Who needs two finger clients anyway?

        - Support added for WinTalk.

        - Various updated clients in the clients.zip package.

1.0     January 10, 1994        Initial release outside of CCCD.

WHERE TO OBTAIN AND HOW TO INSTALL
----------------------------------

You may obtain the autoinstaller portion of the package from:

        ftp://ftp.cccd.edu/pub/banyan/inetai12.zip

You may obtain the winsock clients (all readily found elsewhere, I might
add) portion of the package from:

        ftp://ftp.cccd.edu/pub/winsock/clients.zip

This package assumes that you will be unzipping its top-most directory at
P:\internet.  You can install it elsewhere, but you would have a
heck of alot of path editing to do in myriad configuration files.  Yuck.

If the multi-megabyte size of clients.zip is too intimidating for you to ftp
over our 56KB Internet connection, you can pick and choose individual
winsock clients and ftp them directly from the distribution sites listed
in the unabridged readme.txt file.

To install on a user's PC, first have the user login under Banyan, and then
with Windows _down_ run the following batch files in order:

        P:\internet\install\autoconf.bat
        P:\internet\install\pctcp.bat
        P:\internet\install\internet.bat

FILES IN P:\INTERNET\INSTALL
----------------------------

autoconf.bat    Basically a stub that calls autoconf.sh.
autoconf.sh     Determine config defaults & prompt the user for changes.
cello.ini       Config template for CELLO.
cello.sty       Config template for CELLO.
eudora.ini      Config template for EUDORA.
ftpsrv.ini      Config template for PC/TCP FTPSRV.
ftpsrv.pif      Windows PIF for PC/TCP FTPSRV.
gsview.ini      Config template for GHOSTSCRIPT.
hgopher.ini     Config template for HGOPHER.
interdoc.grp    "Internet Tool Documentation" Windows program group.
internet.bat    Installs the Internet clients.
internet.grp    "Internet Clients" Windows program group.
intersrv.grp    "Internet Servers" Windows program group.
intersrv.txt    A warning about the dangers of running Interet server apps.
interutl.grp    "Internet Misc Utilities" Windows program group.
mkclient.bat    PKZIP the winsock clients portion.
mkinetai.bat    PKZIP the autoinstaller portion.
mosaic.ini      Config template for MOSAIC.
newpctcp.bat    Distributes new pctcp.ini templates to all fileservers.
newsock.bat     Distributes new winsock.dll updates to all fileservers.
newsrc          Config template for WINVN.
pctcp.211       Suggested config template for PC/TCP v2.11.
pctcp.awk       Used by pctcp.bat to perform surgery on Windows system.ini.
pctcp.bat       Installs PC/TCP.
pctcp.ini       Suggested config template for PC/TCP v2.2.
progman.awk     Used by internet.bat to alter Windows progman.ini.
qws3270.ini     Config template for QWS3270.
readme.txt      The file you are reading now.
services        A Unix services file; required only by the finger clients?
serweb.ini      Config template for SERWEB.
wais.src        Config template for WINWAIS.
winirc.ini      Config template for WINIRC.
winsock.dll     PC/TCP's winsock.dll, v1.12, February 2, 1994
wintalk.ini     Config template for WINTALK.
winvn.ini       Config template for WINVN.
--
Mark Bixby                         Internet: [e-mail]
Coast Community College District   1370 Adams Avenue
District Information Services      Costa Mesa, CA, USA  92626
Technical Support                  [phone]
"You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M)
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If anyone could give me pointers and hardcopy documentation for
a listserver.  It would be greatly appreciated.


James McGovern
Command Systems
One Corporate Center
Hartford CT 06103

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Subject: Re: Drag and drop ftp client for Winsock ?

In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Denny) writes:
>Has anyone seen a drag and drop ftp client for Winsock?  The ftp client
>would show the server file system like the standard Fileman in Windows
>does and allow file to be copied by draging and droping them like with
>ordinary Windows.  Sort of a poor man's NFS.

The Air Spry FTP client does exactly this.  When executed it also spawns a
copy of windows File Manager, so you can drag and drop files back and forth
between the connected FTP site and your hard drive.  It was very easy to
use.
                    Art

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Subject: Reporting errors

Does anyone have a method or subroutine that they would be willing to share
for reporting application-deduced errors that is adaptable to both Microsoft's
error reporting architecture and to SNMP capture, forwarding, and analysis?

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Mark A. Scarton, ABD                 | Sunquest Information Systems
801/278-7597, fax [phone]           | 4525 S. Wasatch Blvd Suite 335
[e-mail]       | Salt Lake City, Utah  84124
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In article <2lr1e1$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Michael Berry) writes:
>Subject: Re: Suggestions for Newbie
>From: [e-mail] (Michael Berry)
>Date: 12 Mar 1994 00:12:49 GMT

>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Centerline Computers) writes:
>>In article <2lh9vv$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Eric Harding) writes:
>>>From: [e-mail] (Eric Harding)
>>>Subject: Suggestions for Newbie
>>>Date: 7 Mar 1994 23:37:35 -0800
>>
>>>Can some suggest some programs to run with Winsock?  Specifically a
>>>newsreader, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, WWW, WAIS clients?  Newsreader wise, I
>>>am looking for a  threaded newsreader, with uuencode/uudecode capibilites.

>Eric --
>        Once you get a WWW browser (Mosaic), I have a web page full of
>links to the most popular winsock programs.  Check it out :
>        http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~berrym/winsock.html

>-- Mike

I can't get a connection to this www site.  Is it active yet?  Is the spelling
correct?  Specifically, when I copy the above address to the clipboard and
paste it into Mosaic's Menu and then try to access it I get "Access not
available" errors.

Kerry Moorman
[e-mail]