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Here's a simple, practical tutorial for getting people online. Nothing too
advanced here. The email requests have been flooding me so I guess it IS worth
a post.

Distribute freely.

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Beginners Guide to Internet Stuff.

This tutorial captures my experiences with Trumpet Winsock and various
clients under Microsoft Windows. I'm no expert but I'll try to build
a bridge between beginners and experts.


WINSOCK:

Winsock is a cooperative specification defined by various companies
and government agencies involved in networking. It is an API
superset of Berkeley Sockets with additional routines required
to cooperate with the MS Window environment.

There are two catagories of products that a user should understand;
winsock compliant drivers and winsock compliant clients. Being
compliant means that the product implements it's side of the winsock
API; thus any winsock client can use any winsock driver. Winsock is
specific to Microsoft Windows and NT.

Drivers:

Winsock drivers implement the API through network protocols such
as TCP/IP, SL/IP or PPP. TCP/IP is a long standing protocol for
dedicated networks such an Ethernets, DecNets, and WANs like
direct Internet connections.

SL/IP stands for Serial Link/Internetworking Protocol; otherwise
known as dialup service. This protocol can be used over phones
via a modem.  I use this protocol implemented by the Trumpet
Winsock product, a shareware version available on Internet.

PPP is a more robust protocol that works like SL/IP; ie. dialup.
SL/IP was created informally early on and is widely supported. PPP
was created formally, is technically better, but is still catching
up in popularity.

Clients:

Winsock clients include newsreaders for NNTP services, mail readers
for POP mail services, FTP for downloading from ftp sites, Gopher
for navigating through Gopher servers to find stuff, and Archie which
helps you find stuff to ftp. Other clients include time syncing clients
to set your PC clock, WAIS and WWW for hypertext searching, and
Telnet for getting terminal access to another machine. I'll only
talk about those clients that I've used.


HANDLING INFORMATION:

To conserve bandwidth, a variety of compression techniques are
used on raw files. To be able to use these files, you'll need
to recognize them and have the appropriate decompressor. To post
big files you should have the compressing part. The well dressed
Internaut should have:

File extension       utility

*.zip                pkzip
*.zoo                zoo
*.tar                   unix tar
*.arc                pkarc
*.Z                  compress

The above compression formats are all 8 bits per byte and you must
use a binary mode to move these files across Internet. Services
such as news and email are 7-bits per byte and you must use uuencode/
uudecode to convert between 7 and 8 bits. uu*code is a unix utility
that has been ported to most machines.  You can ftp these compression
utilities from CICA at /pub/msdos/Archive.

One popular way to burn bandwidth is exchanging pictures. The
newsgroups alt.binaries.* are used to exchange various kinds of
pictures using uu*code (since news is 7 bits). To view these
pictures, use the news reader to read the article. The picture
will look like a mass of scrambled characters. Save this article
to a file. If the picture is in parts, read each article in order
and APPEND them to the same file. Run this file through uudecode and
the picture will come out. You can view this picture with picture
viewers. Again, different file extensions use different viewers.
The well dressed picture fan should have:

*.gif    WinGif or others        Graphical Interchange Format  (compuserve)
*jpg     ecjjpg or winJPG        JPEG, very high res with small files.
                                 Most popular on I'net.
*.mpg    vmpeg or others         MPEG--motion picture version of JPEG
*.tga    Targa                   as in targa boards.
*.bmp    Paint                   MS Windows uncompressed bitmaps
*.rle    Paint and others        MS Windows compressed bitmaps
*.dib    Paint/WinGif/others     MS Windows Device Independent Bitmaps

CICA has these utilities under /pub/pc/win3/*.

GETTING PLUGGED IN:

1) Get an account at a SL/IP service provider. These a usually
   commercial sites that will sell you access to internet using a
   variety of dialup protocols such as SL/IP, PPP or UUCP.

   When you talk to the provider, ask the following questions.
   You'll need the answers later in the process.

   a) News hostname
   b) mail hostname
   c) POP hostname

   You should also decide what you want your account name to be.
   This will be used to build your email address.

   MY EXPERIENCE:     Use a regular comm program such as Procomm to
   dial into the SL/IP modems and login as 'new' (or whatever it
   says). Answer some questions and logout. Among the questions will
   be your account name and a password. Remember what you give these
   questions; you'll need them later. Some systems have 'features'
   that make sure you pick a good password; long enough, uncommon
   words and mixed case are the usual rules. Keep trying until the
   machine accepts one--and remember it! Also write down what the
   user and password prompts were.

   Some time later, the network operator will setup your account.
   You'll need to call the service provider first to find out the
   number, terms, and exact procedures.

   To get the winsock dialer working, you'll need to build a custom
   login.cmd script. If you're familiar with UUCP chat scripts, you
   shouldn't have any problem with this. While you're using the comm
   program to request an account, keep track of the prompts and responses
   needed to get it the system. Part of the login.cmd will be customized
   for your provides prompts. Some ask for Login: while others ask for
   UserID:. The script will need to know which string to wait for.
   The bottom part of the example login.cmd that comes with Trumpet
   is fairly obvious and can do whatever you want. After the line where
   you 'parse your IP address', you can do anything, ping for hosts,
   finger someone everytime, or start your first client which is what
   I do.

   This is the hardest part. If you get stuck, find someone who
   uses the same provider and steal their login.cmd and bye.cmd files.

   To actually dial, use the Dialler | Login menu item to run the
   login.cmd script. When you're done, use the Dialler | Bye menu
   item to run the bye.cmd script. If the login fails for any reason
   like BUSY, bad user id/password, etc, the ESC key will abort the
   script. Once the msg SLIP ENABLED comes up, you can try again.


2) Configure your first client (News/Mail reader):

   Normally you start the Trumpet driver and get connected then start
   a client to get something done. Trumpet also includes a newsreader.
   Lets start this one first. Start with the File |Setup menu.

   News Nost Name: The name of the NNTP server. Ask your provider.
   Mail Host Name: The name of the mail server. Ask your provider.
   E-Mail Address: The account name you specified while setting up the
                     account @ the Mail Host Name again (usually).
   Full Name:    This is your name as you want to be known on mail and
               postings. This name is used for the human part of email
               addresses and to credit you with the parts you write
               in news articles.
   Organization: The name for that part of news and email headers.
   Signature Filename: The drive:\path\filename of your sig file. This
                        file will be appended to every news article and
                        email messsage you send. This is where people put
                        USPS addresses, company details, disclaimers,
                        cute quotes, ASCII art, etc. On Unix, this
                        file is named .sig. If you see someone on
                        I'net talking about the .sig, this is what
                        they're talking about.
   POP Host Name: Usually the same as your Mail Nost. Ask your provider.
   POP Username: Your name as known to the POP host. Usually the same
                  as the first part of the EMail Address.
   Password: The passwors you gave the provider. It will echo stars back
               to you. Dont forget it cuz you'll need for the login.cmd
               script too. This password is used for fetching mail.

Next go to the File | Network Setup menu.

    IP address:      0.0.0.0   Your actually IP address with determined
                              at login time.
    Time Server:    0.0.0.0     I dont think Trumpet actually supports
                              NTP time servers.
    Domain Suffix: Leave blank.

Now use File | Save Settings to keep all this work.

Use File | Reconnect to try out the settings. If it doesn't work,
find a network friend. Otherwise, start reading some newsgroups.
If you're new to Newsgroups, it's good manners to just read for
awhile (don't post) to see what the rules of the group are. Most
groups will have a Fequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file available
on request for newbies. Ask for the FAQ or wait for it to be
posted. Most moderators will occasionally post if not explicitly
asked. Also, not all newsgroups are moderated so the language
may be a bit 'unconstrained'.  Welcome to democracy gone crazy.

When you start posting, Use Post for originating a new conversation,
use Follow to publicly comment on someone else's article and use
Reply to send a private email response to the author.

This client has a mail reader that can be accessed through the
Window menu item. Fetch will get your mail and everything else
work like the news reader screen. Once you're in, Article |
Subcribe will give a list of all the newsgroups available through
your provider. The top listbox filters the first part of the newsgroup
name. The right listbox shows the groups you can subscribe to. Click
a group to subscribe. That group will then move to the left listbox.
Click OK to put these new groups on you top pane.

The list of subscribed groups will appear in the
top pane of the main window. Doubleclick one to download
the titles. Doubleclick a title to download and read an article.
The first time you scan a newsgroup, it'll take awhile. It will be
retrieving all articles still on the machine rather than all
articles you haven't read yet. If you want to start fresh, use
Article | Catch Up.  After you've read all the articles in a group,
use Article | Read All to get rid of the ones you didn't even
download. If you don't, they'll keep coming back.

Everything else for this client is in the docs and is left as
an exercise for the student (I always wanted to say that :))

3) Configure another client (Eudora mail reader):

I like the Eudore mail reader. I use the freeware version but
once you outgrow that you can buy the commercial version
that has nice features like message filtering and sorting.

Under the Special | Configuration menu item:

POP Account:   [e-mail]  is my name@POP host
Real Name:     you know.
SMTP:          I dont use it cuz Eudora can only read via SMTP
               which is why I'm using SLIP.
Return Address:   Where you want people to send answers to your email.
                  Doesnt have to be the same as POP Account. At work,
                  I have return messsage come to my home.

Check for mail:   The duration to periodically recheck mail.
Ph Server:        halcyon.com in my case. Ask your provider.
Fonts:            I like courier cuz it's non proportional.
Message Width:    This is tricker than it looks. This and the font size
                  determines the width of the msg window to read and
                  compose msgs. If you set it too narrow, you wont be
                  able to see the Queue button to send msgs.

Under Special | Switches is some more settings. The key one here is
               Save Password. If you dont set this, you'll be prompted
               for the password everytime you check mail. If set,
               you'll only be asked the first time. Special |
               Forget Password can be used to when you dont want
               other to get into your mail.

Use File |Check Mail to actually fetch your mail.

4) now for some FTP.

I use WS_FTP by John Junod. It has a nice windows interface and can
be resized to see long unix file names. It starts you with a few
popular ftp sites. CICA is the one MS windows people should get to know.
It has just about every windows shareware app ever built. Most ftp sites
allow anonymous login (thats your user id). When logging in anonymously,
it's good manners to use your email address as the password. WS_FTP does
this for you. Go through the Connect button to get connected. Messages
come in the little box at the bottom. Your directories are on the left,
the remote's are on the right, when you find something you want, hit the
left arrow button in the middle and watch the bits fly. Right button
is for uploading. There's usually an UPLOAD directory on a ftp site that
will give you the write permissions you need. Once you get Ftp, it's
time to go shopping for other clients, data, pictures, anything. Get
ftp working ASAP. You'll love it. Start at CICA at ftp.cica.indiana.edu
(anonymous). You can get most everything I talked about here at CICA under
/pub/pc/win3/winsock. The current time sync is at
ftp.cac.washington.edu in /pub/winsock/tsync1_7.zip.

5) PINGing:

Same guy has a nice simple ping program, WS_PING. Type in a host name
under LookUp then use BlockingPing or AsyncPing to see if the host
is there.

6) Setting Time.

   One little client I like is Time Sync 1.7 by Brad Greer of
   university o' Washington. It will connect to a unix machine that
   provides the unix time service on socket 37 and sets your local
   PC clock to match. This isn't the Navy's Atomic Clock but lets
   get real. This doesn't use the NTP time service. That's the name
   of the atomic clock service over Internet. I dont have an NTP
   client and I really dont need one-- know whatta mean?

All of these clients except the Eudora mail reader will start
the Trumpet driver or try to connect if its not already running.
So expect that when you initially start a client. You can compose
Eudora messages before connecting but to access anything else, have
the driver running first; even if its not dialed in.


7) SHOPPING:

Here's the CICA winsock index to save you some time.
**
**  Index of Windows Sockets (Winsock) Interface Apps in
**  in ~ftp/pub/pc/win3/winsock at ftp.cica.indiana.edu
**  [129.79.26.27]
**
**  Last Updated: Tue Apr 12 23:11:41 1994
**
**

bsdchat.exe    940321   Berkeley WinSock Daemon Talk Client
cello.zip      940218   lo WWW Browser Release 1.0 (16 Feb 1994)
col_12b1.zip   940311   NCSA Collage for Winsock [203k]
cooksock.zip   931002   Cookie server for windows sockets interface
eudora14.exe   931217   PC Eudora 1.4 WinSockAPI 1.1 POP3/SMTP mail client
ewais154.zip   931123   EINet WAIS client application v1.54 for Winsock
finger31.zip   930810   Windows Sockets Finger Client
gcp_24.exe     940407   GCP++ TCP/IP Tools for Winsock v2.4.2 [1.06mb]
gophbk11.zip   930713   GopherBook, ToolBook based Gopher Client for WinSock
hgoph24.zip    940117   H gopher 2.4 is a Winsock compliant gopher client
phwin22.zip    940407   Full and free CCSO ph client using the winsock 1.1 API
qvtws397.zip   940307   Windows-Sockets compliant version of TCP/IP WinQVT/Net
qws3270.zip    940325   qws3270 winsock tn3270 emulator 3/25/94 release
serweb03.zip   931209   World Wide Web Server for Windows 3.1 and NT
sticky.zip     940311   Sticky POST-IT(TM) Notes for Winsock
tektel1a.zip   940311   Tektonix (4000) Terminal Emulation for Winsock
trmptel.zip    940311   Trumpet TELNET (VT100) Terminal for Winsock
tsync1_4.zip   940119   Winsock app sets your PC's clock to match a remote host
txtsrv.zip     931002   text server for Winsock API; speaks finger protocol
web3ham.zip    940322   Web4Ham - A World Wibe Web Server for Winsock
wftpd19.zip    940323   Windows FTP daemon 1.8b for Winsock 1.1
wgopher.zip    940201   Gopher for Windows Version 2.2
winapps.zip    931201   Winsock apps that were prev bundled with winsock.zip
winelm.zip     940319   WinElm E-mail reader for Winsock
winfsp12.zip   930810   FSP download application which uses WINSOCK.DLL
winftp.zip     940111   WinSock FTP program executables for Windows NT
wingp.zip      940311   Green Pages for Window Sockets 1.1 Winsock [951k]
winpanda.zip   940311   Panda:gopher, ftp, e-mail & news clients for Winsock
winsock.zip    940202   Peter Tattam's Trumpet Winsock ver 1.0
wintelb3.zip   931202   NCSA Telnet for MS Windows (unsupported beta 3)
wnvn082s.zip   931202   WinVN the NNTP newsreader for Windows (winsock)
wlprs40.zip    940312   WLPRSPL v4, a Windows Sockets based print spooler
wmos20a2.zip   940301   NCSA Mosaic v. 2.0 alpha 2 for MS Windows
ws_ftp.zip     940325   Windows Sockets FTP Client Application Ver 94.03.25
ws_ping.zip    931003   Windows Sockets PING Client Release 1 Version 93.10.03
wsarchie.zip   940322   Mar94 version of WSArchie, Archie Client for WinSock
wsatest.zip    940311   WSA Test Program for Winsock
wschesb1.zip   940318   Multiplayer Winsock Chess Beta 1
wsck-nfs.zip   931029   Allow PC-NFS v5.0 to handle any Winsock compliant app
wslpd.zip      931002   Winsock Line Printer Daemon LPD for Windows
wsmtpd16.zip   931027   Windows 3.1 and NT SimpleMailTransProtocol Daemon
wsock1b2.zip   930728   WinSock: Socket-DLLs for NCSA Telnet for Windows
wtwsk10a.zip   931002   Trumpet Newsreader NNTP for winsock
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Kevin Hintergardt
[e-mail]
Welcome to the Information Goat Path
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Can someone point me to where I can find discussion groups on EDI and
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>From what I understand, later versions of (alas!) DOS Kermit include TCP/IP
& TELNET capabilities over a packet driver.  I believe (but haven't seen it
actually done) that these DOS Kermits will run in a windows under Windows.
 Haven't heard of a WinSock version of Kermit, yet...
======================================================================
Mark Fisher                            Thomson Consumer Electronics
[e-mail]           Indianapolis, IN

"Just as you should not underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon
traveling 65 mph filled with 8mm tapes, you should not overestimate
the bandwidth of FTP by mail."
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I use both Cello and WinMosaic, but I like Cello better.  The speed of Cello
far outstrips Mosaic, to the point that I only run Mosaic when I need forms
or to check if a problem I am seeing is due to my misconfiguration of our
WWW server.  The stability of Cello seems greater than that of Mosaic
v2.0a2.  Mosaic has a habit of crashing at the oddest URLs.  My suspicion is
that Thomas Bruce (author of Cello) is farther up on the Microsoft Windows
learning curve than the Mosaic authors (putting on asbestos suit :)).  I
have to maintain different sets of habits for my Windows and NT GUI
programming than I do for my VMS and UNIX programming, so I find that
understandable.

As for <[e-mail]>, where Patrick Lee says:
>One thing that I like Mosaic over Cello is Mosaic's standard use of text-
>based INI file. I can edit it with a text editor if I like, which I cannot
>with Cello's (non-text-based, at least as of version 1.0).
I think you are speaking of the additional bookmark and style files (not
CELLO.INI), which I do not understand why they are in binary.  On the other
hand, the .INI file format can be pretty inflexible, as we found out locally
(esp. when you need variable #'s of nearly identical entries:
topic1=blah
topic2=bleah
topic3=bloh
...).

Forms support will arrive in Cello v2, which I gather Tom is madly coding
away at.  Forms are something I could really use in my WWW application, so
much so that I am coding around it; after all, how DO you put a document
into your node of the Web?  Tom: that "file input form widget" would be REAL
nice...
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Mark Fisher                            Thomson Consumer Electronics
[e-mail]           Indianapolis, IN

"Just as you should not underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon
traveling 65 mph filled with 8mm tapes, you should not overestimate
the bandwidth of FTP by mail."
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Chameleon 4.0 has a TN5250 app.  I don't have an AS/400 locally to try it
on, so I don't know about the quality.  I would give their ethernet stack
***** (out of 5), while I would give their apps I have used (FTP, TELNET,
TN3270, and NEWT statistics) ****1/2.
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Mark Fisher                            Thomson Consumer Electronics
[e-mail]           Indianapolis, IN

"Just as you should not underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon
traveling 65 mph filled with 8mm tapes, you should not overestimate
the bandwidth of FTP by mail."
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Todd Purifoy) says:
>
>I am running novell and wfw with the March beta.  The only problem I seem to
>have is occasional hangs.  The only consistent hang up I get is tring to go to
>the msdos prompt.  Does anyone know why this happens and how to fix it?
>I am pretty sure I made all the needed changes in my *.ini files.  I figure
>there may be some undocumented change I can make to stabalize this stuff.
>Thanks
>
>
>[e-mail]

Try the April beta.  It solved our "hang after print" problem;  it might solve
your problem too.

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In article <2p6d73$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Christopher Jon Wilkins) says:
>
>
>The question is: is it worth buying WFWG3.11 and downloading one of the
>Microsoft TCP/IP betas (which one: there seems to be two?). What extra features
>will this give me? Is it worth the money (only $31 per PC at academic
>prices). Shoudl I just wait until the next batch of WIndows products comes
>out?
>
YES, The Daytona Beta has been very stable for us. I've used it on various
pc's 386/33 - 486/66 (Austin, Gateways, Compaq).  About the only program
that we can't get to work is Rumba 3 release 5. Hope Rumba 4 fixes this.

There is also more 32bit code in 3.11.

Regards, David in Houston.
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Subject: Re: A free Telnet for winsock

[e-mail] (Peter Zander) writes:

>I have uploaded a new version of EWAN, my VT100/telnet for winsock on:
>ftp.lysator.liu.se in /pub/msdos/windows/ewan1b.arj
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Can someone place it on a better location? E.g. CICA, who has many mirrors!

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Please please plesaase... somebody tell me there is a decent newsreader
client somewhere in teh digital universe!!!! Mail me a note and I'll be
very very grateful!!!! (sorry about the typos... unfamiliar editor...
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