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Congratulations on your purchase of Telnet version 1.00! We hope that you
will enjoy the minutes of use guaranteed before it's obsoleted by the next
beta. Let's quickly review the contract:
1) This is freeware! Meaning: I don't want money. I would much rather
produce a program that people want to use, so... please send comments,
criticisms, or suggestions to: jbaumgar@coil.com. Only in this way can Telnet
get better. So support the Atari community!
2) This is completely `freely distributable'(tm). Meaning: Send it
everywhere, but don't charge for the program itself. You can, of course,
charge a nominal fee for the disk it is on, but then again, why would you want
to pay for this when it is available on http://www.coil.com/~jbaumgar/ai.html
for free.
3) The betas found on http://www.coil.com/~jbaumgar/ai.html are NOT
freely distributable and have their own contract in which part (1) is
mandatory. You don't have to ask me to download them, but please don't spread
the betas around. You will be able to tell the difference by the small bits of
text listed after the version number. In the AI page, betas are listed as
'0.35beta', whereas releases are listed as '1.00release.'
Okay, that was fun. Now about Telnet. Telnet is based on a program
of the same name originally developed by the Regents of the University of
California at Berkley as a program used to get their clients and servers
talking to one another in a platform-independent virtual terminal. How is
Telnet useful to you? Well, if you have some sort of login account somewhere
on this vast planet of ours, you can login to it. Also, some libraries and
other services have areas that are accessible only after a login (through
Telnet). And if you act now, you can access the multitude of MUDs and MUSHes
scattered about the net, again with Telnet.
Telnet is easy to use if you know where you're going. If you know the
full hostname (until STiK's resolver allows for machines within your domain)
and port of the server you wish to telnet to (default port is 23), you can
quite easily connect. Either with ALT-O or the menu bar, select "Open..."
Then, type the full hostname or IP address of the site in the host TEDINFO, and
if you don't want to use port 23, edit the port by pressing the down arrow and
backspacing over the default. Simple, eh?
If you wish to open a new connection, you can just select open again (it
automatically closes). If you want to run in idle for a time, you can close
the connection with ALT-C or "Close" from the menu. If you don't like the size
of the font, the shape of the cursor, or the granularity of the scrolling,
there are options to toggle in the "Options" menu:
* Small (8 point), Medium (9 point), and Large (10 point) fonts are just
that. They will set the terminal font to the point size you select, resize and
then redraw the window.
* Block Cursor toggles between a thick character-sized cursor, and a thin
line while Blinking Cursor toggles the blinking feature of the cursor.
* Blitter Intensive mode means that vro_cpyfm is used more heavily than
otherwise. It does not have anything to do with Blitter other than the fact
that vro_cpyfm's are performed by the Blitter on machines with the chip, and is
emulated on machines without.
The windows work in compliance with the GEM standard except for the arrows
and the dark grey regions in the scrollbars. And that's it! If you want more
features, then e-mail me about them. Again, my address is:
jbaumgar@coil.com
And you can find new betas and releases at:
http://www.coil.com/~jbaumgar/ai.html
Thanks for your patronage!
James E. Baumgardner II