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vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.misc    Other TCP/IP solutions for VMS.
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        Frequently asked questions about AmigaNOS.
        ******************************************
           Michael Richardson
        [e-mail]

  I think I see at least a question about AmigaNOS every week. I'm
going to try and compile a frequently asked questions on it. I think
at least the following questions must be answered:

  1.*) general questions
  1.1) what is AmigaNOS
  1.2) what is it used for?
  1.3) how do I get it to dial?
  1.4) where can I get documentation/source/binary?
  1.5) can I do dialup X? NFS? SMTP?
  1.6) What about PPP?
  1.7) where I find out more?
  1.8) How do I install it?

  2.*) questions of a more technical nature
  2.1) Does it come with a library gives you socket calls?

  If you mail me other questions (or answers) I'll include them, and
find answers for them. If you have better responses, please send them.
I'm taking this stuff from postings that are still around my system.
  This is formatted as a digest, you can go to the next section with
many news readers with ^G.

--------
Subject: 1.1 -  What is AmigaNOS

From: [e-mail] (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 11 Feb 92 13:11:05 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Only the BEST!!) writes:
   > Guys, pardon my ignorance, but what is AmigaNOS really used for??  I thought
   > it was a terminal program, but it apparantly is some kind of a networking fo
   > software.  So what is it used for, and how could I take advantage of it.

NOS was originally written for PCs by Phil Karn, a radio ham whose callsign
is KA9Q (the software is often referred to as the KA9Q software). It was
designed to allow hams to run AX25 (a modified version of X.25 for amateur
radio) and TCP/IP over their packet radio modems. It now also supports
TCP/IP over ethernet lines and serial lines, and as far as I know also
has support for other protocols like Net/ROM (ham radio) and PPP.

AmigaNOS is an Amiga port of it, currently maintained by John Heaton, a UK
radio amateur. Its not exclusively for hams, it works very well as a
general network package for PCs, Amigas, Macs etc. I've used it to
connect PCs to Suns, and intend to do the same with an Amiga/Sun connection.

Steve

--------
Subject: 1.2 -  What is AmigaNOS used for?

  A great deal of people use AmigaNOS over serial lines (with or
without modems) for file transfers and telnet connections. The other
facilities are of limited use unless you are a ham radio operator.
  I (<[e-mail]>) use it to connect my Amiga and Sun 3/60.
I have an ftp login that connects me to the MSH: device. This lets me
stick 720k MSDOS disks in my Amiga and transfer things (usually things
I've ftp'ed at school) directly to the Sun.

  In order to make use of AmigaNOS' SLIP capabilities you need a host
to connect to that is willing to do SLIP. Just having AmigaNOS doesn't
get you on the Internet.

--------
Subject: 1.3 - How do you get AmigaNOS to dial?

From: [e-mail] (Steve Gilbert)
Subject: AmigaNOS that dials for you
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 31 Aug 92 09:02:17 GMT
Reply-To: [e-mail]

There is now a modded version of AmigaNOS which will dial, and log on for you.

Very useful for slip connections over a modem link.

Available from gate.demon.co.uk (158.152.1.65) for anonymous ftp, with
the filenames

pub/amiga/anos29/DiallingAmigaNOS      - The Executable
pub/amiga/anos29/DiallingAmigaNOS.txt  - Some Instructions from the Author
pub/amiga/anos29/fixed-anos-src.lha    - Source for above.

Regards,

Steve.
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From: [e-mail] (Roy A Sutton)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brian Mcbee) writes:
>So, my understanding is that AmigaNOS doesn't have the ability to let you dial
>your modem.  Those of you using it for dial up SLIP, what terminal program
>are you using to dial with, and where did you get it?  I have a small
>collection of terminal programs that I have been using, but they all drop
>the connection when I exit from the program.  Any ideas?
>
>
>--
>Brian McBee   [e-mail]  or  [e-mail]

If you have a Hayse compatible modem, it can be programmed
to (or not to) drop the line when DTR is dropped. Since all
terminal programs release the serial device when they are existed,
the DTR is droped. What you can doe is issure the command to
your modem, if supported, to not drop the line when DTR is dropped.

I hope this helps,

Roy Sutton
PVAMU

From: [e-mail] (Duane)

The reason that your carrier is dropped when you leave a terminal program,
is that your modem is not set so that "DTR ALWAYS ON", refer to the
manuals, but I imagine its a dipswitch setting...

From: [e-mail] (JOHN HEATON)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

>6.  Dialer Subcommands
>    Each dialer command may (should) have a different diler file.
>    The file resides in the configuration directory, as specified in the
>    Installation section (see chapter 1). etc.

I have NOT put these into AmigaNOS, because I have no need for them on
Packet Radio.

--------
Subject: 1.4 - Where can I get documentation/source/binary?

  If you can ftp, look on ucsd.edu under /hamradio/packet. Look for
the PC documentation, as there is little that is fundamentally
changed.
  /hamradio/packet/tcpip/amiga will usually have the latest binaries
and source.
  John Heaton also has source and binary kit available for anon-ftp
available from jh.mcc.ac.uk (130.88.202.27). Unless you are on John's
side of the big sink, you would be better advised to try ucsd.edu.

--------
Subject: 1.5 -  Can I do dialup X? NFS?

From: [e-mail] (Randy M. Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.packet,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Heaton) writes:
}I Use AmigaNOS on my 2000 to send/receive files to/from my 386/40 PC running
}NOS.EXE at 19200baud at about 5k/sec using SLIP.
}
    Does this mean that I should have no problem (hee, hee) using
    AmigaNos to connect to the SLIP system at school over a modem?

    Does this also mean that I can buy GfxBase's X server and use
    it over said line?

    Inquiring minds want to know!

}Cheers, John.
}                  JANET : [e-mail]
}  Packet: [e-mail]7NWP.#16.GBR.EU                        (QTHR)
}* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *
}|                      NRS Central Administrator                      |
}| MCC Network Unit, The University, Oxford Road, Manchester,  M13-9PL |
}|           Phone: [phone], FAX: [phone]          |
}* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *


  As said above, yes, AmigaNOS will let you do SLIP. How usefull this
is uncertain. It does let you have multiple sessions, and you can do
background file transfers.

  No. GfxBase will not run with AmigaNOS.
  There is no NFS server or client in AmigaNOS. See question 2.1.

--------
Subject: 1.6 - Can I do PPP?

In article <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> writes:
>I am currently using the AmigaNOS with PPP, which was done by Marc Boucher.
>The version information indicates: KA9Q NOS 900418 (PPP.15).

--------
Subject: 1.7 - Where do I find out more?

  To have yourself added to the list, please send mail to
    [e-mail].

  Messages from the past several months are being collected in
alfred.ccs.carleton.ca:/pub/amiga-net/amiga-slip, and are also
available via WAIS.

--------
Subject: 1.8 - How do I install it?

From: [e-mail] (JOHN HEATON)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

All the files relating to AmigaNOS, are normally under the device TCPIP:
i.e,

directories:
    TCPIP:Finger
    TCPIP:Spool/HELP
    TCPIP:Spool/MAIL
    TCPIP:Spool/MQUEUE
    TCPIP:Spool/NEWS
files:
    TCPIP:Spool/areas
    TCPIP:Spool/forward.bbs
    TCPIP:AmigaNOS
    TCPIP:ftpusers
    TCPIP:Domain.txt
    TCPIP:alias
    TCPIP:nos.rc
etc....

If you want a full list then let me know.

Cheers, John.
                  JANET : [e-mail]
  Packet: [e-mail]7NWP.#16.GBR.EU                        (QTHR)
* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *
|                      NRS Central Administrator                      |
| MCC Network Unit, The University, Oxford Road, Manchester,  M13-9PL |
|           Phone: [phone], FAX: [phone]          |
* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *

--------
Subject: 2.1 - Does it come with a library gives you socket calls?

  You can't interface GfxBase's X server because AmigaNOS does not
provide any kind of standard TCP/IP library interface. Commodore
hasn't really released one yet. Although they do have TCP/IP software
for their network board, I don't think it does socket.library yet, and
AmigaNOS doesn't talk to socket.library anyway.

  AmigaNOS is one binary and multitasks internally (but not with
AmigaDOS' help). You have to remember that NOS stands for Network
Operating System. On NOS' native PC environment when you remove NOS
all you have is a sophisticated program loader, NOS provides
everything else.

  To add a new client or server to NOS, one must recompile the whole
program. On PCs, the NOS people are currently hitting the 640k crunch
very hard. Fortunately, we don't have this problem.





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Last-modified: 1992/12/15
Version: 2.5

Compiled-by: Richard Akerman ([e-mail])

v2.5 available by anonymous FTP from wuarchive:
                      /systems/amiga/incoming/text/AmigaSciSchool-2.5.readme

This document is a summary of info I have on hand about Science/School/UNIX
software.  It's a combination of things I have found out myself (I use most
of these programs), information posted on USENET newsgroups (mostly
uncredited, sorry), and responses I got to questions I send to commercial
product representatives.  I have tried to make the information herein as
detailed and correct as possible; please email me with any corrections or
comments.

Programs covered:
1. MAPLE V
2. X-windows
TeX
  3a. AmigaTeX
  3b. PasTeX 1.3
  3c. DVIprint
  3d. dvi2lj
  3e. fig
  3f. ARexx macros for TeX
4. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26
  4a. fifo.library & Csh 5.19
5. UNIX commands for the Amiga [every one you ever wanted]
  5a. man
  5b. diff
  5c. compress, uncompress, zcat
  5d. tar
  5e. tarsplit
  5f. ispell 3.3LJR
  5g. nroff
  5h. ixemul.library
6. GNU plot 3.2
7. FTP sites
Appendix A.  Programs on grind
Appendix B.  Programs on wuarchive


NOTE: some of these files/archives are very large.  Often they contain
source or other files you may not need.  If you are sending the files to
yourself over the phone lines, or other slow medium for which you may have
to pay, use the appropriate archiver on your UNIX system beforehand to
delete all unneeded files in the archive.  The most common archiving format
is .lzh and .lha, use the lha program for these.  See Appendix A for UNIX
versions of archiving programs (lha, zoo, unzip).  See note in Appendix B
about Amiga archiving programs.

There is a nice review of science software in the March 1992 (#48) _.info_,
a magazine whose demise is much lamented.

1. MAPLE V =================================================================

MAPLE V, a commercial "Mathematica"-like program is available for the
Amiga.

There is a review of Maple V in the above mentioned _.info_ article,
pp. 35-36.

There is a more recent review of Maple V in the January 1993 (Vol. 8, #1)
_Amazing Computing_, pp. 69-71.

I received a very detailed response to my questions from Maplesoft
(specifically, from Joyce Brennan, Communications Manager).  Here it is, with
several screens of additional promotional information removed at the end,
and some of the other descriptive portions summarized.

From: [e-mail] (Joyce Brennan)
Subject: Amiga Maple V Posting - correction

> 1. Address, phone, fax

    |\^/|      Waterloo Maple Software
._|\|   |/|_.  160 Columbia St. West
 \  MAPLE  /   Waterloo, Ontario
 <____ ____>   CANADA  N2L 3L3
      |        Tel:  [phone]        [e-mail]
               Fax:  [phone]

> 2. system requirements

Systems Compatibility
   - Supports the following configurations, with and without
     coprocessors: Commodore Amiga 1000, 2000, 2500 and 3000
   - Requires Amiga DOS, version 2.04 or higher

Memory Requirements
   - 2 MB RAM and 8 MB disk storage

> 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount

For Canadian Customers:
A single-user copy is now available for only Can $695 for educational
and government institutions (if the user can provide proof of their
affiliation), and Can $935 for all others.  Shipping and handling
is added to this price.  For additional information call 1-800-877-6583.

For U.S. Customers:
A single-user copy is now available for only US $595 for educational
and government institutions (if the user can provide proof of their
affiliation), and US $795 for all others.  Shipping and handling
is added to this price.  For additional information call 1-800-877-6583.

For Customers outside North America:
Please contact Waterloo Maple Software at the address or phone number
[above], or by sending an e-mail message to [e-mail]
and we would be happy to put you in touch with your local distributor.

For Academic Degree-granting Institutions:
Site licenses are required in order to run Maple on a network.
For academic institutions, a site license is calculated for each
type of machine, and the price for site licenses depends on the
number and type of machines running Maple.

Site licenses are calculated, as follows:

    Number         Price of
    of Users    Multi-User License

    1        single-user license
    2 - 4        2 x single-user license
    5 - 9        3 x single-user license
    10 - 16        4 x single-user license
    17 - 25        5 x single-user license
    26 - 36        6 x single-user license
    37 - 49        7 x single-user license
    50 - 64        8 x single-user license
    65 - 81        9 x single-user license
    82 - 100    10 x single-user license
    101- 121    11 x single-user license
    Unlimited    12 x single-user license

This special site license option is available for degree-granting
educational institutions only.  For these multi-user licenses, you
will also need to sign a Software License Agreement, which we will
mail/FAX to you as soon as you arrange an order with us.

Although the above site license calculation does not apply to
non-academic sites, volume discounts and special multi-user licenses
are also available.

> and whatever else you would like to provide.

Maple V Features
   - Full implementation of Maple including interactive 3-D
     graphics with PostScript and IFF format output
   - Takes advantage of Amiga specific standards for session editing
   - ARexx port which supports all Maple V functions
   - Over 2,000 library functions

When you purchase Maple, the software package includes detailed
installation instructions, a tutorial introduction and two manuals
(Language Reference & Library Reference manuals).  On-site workshops
can also be arranged.

*******************************************************************
Free Upgrade to Maple V Release 2 for Amiga
*******************************************************************
Those customers who purchase Maple V for the Amiga from Waterloo Maple
Software now will be entitled to a free upgrade to Maple V Release 2
which is expected to be available for this platform by the end of the
first quarter of 1993.
*******************************************************************
Those customers who purchased Amiga Maple V from Waterloo Maple
Software any time AFTER June 1, 1992, will be entitled to a free
upgrade to Maple V Release 2, and will be mailed this automatically
as soon as it becomes available for distribution.
*******************************************************************

[There was a LOT of information about Maple V Release 2, and Maple in
general, here's a very brief summary, as this is a FAQ, not an advertisement

MAPLE V Release 2
  * adds 700 new functions for total of over 2500
  * highly programmable C & Pascal-based language has been further refined
  * "work with standard math notation and print publication quality results"
  * "stunning new interactive graphics, including animation for time-variant
     analysis"
  * combine text, graphics and math using easy worksheet interface
  * will produce LaTeX formatted output
  * will produce FORTRAN and C code]

2. X-windows ===============================================================

A commercial version of X-windows is available from GfxBase.

For more information contact
Dale Luck: [e-mail]

What follows is the response to my emailed questions:

From: [e-mail] (Dale Luck)
Subject: X11 info

> 1. Address, phone, fax

GfxBase, Inc.
1881 Ellwell Dr.
Milpitas, CA 95036
USA

Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

> 2. system requirements

Minimum 1M RAM, 7M disk, recommended 3M RAM, 14M harddisk

> 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount

Price: [US] $395,  Eduprice: [US] $316.  Site licenses available.

> and whatever else you would like to provide.

Please send a postal address and we can send you our
printed literature.
Also available, XView 2.0, Motif, Xtk programmers libraries.

3a. AmigaTeX ================================================================

AmigaTeX is a commercial program available from Radical Eye.  Comes with
TeX, LaTeX, MetaFont, Previewer, and Post 1.7 (for handling PostScript).

8 program disks + 6 font disks.  Hard disk installer program so you can
install a minimum or full system.

It has a special font loading system so you don't need all of them on your
hard disk; it will request the font disks as needed.

For more information contact the author:
Tomas Rokicki: [e-mail]

What follows is the author's response to my emailed questions:

From: Tomas G. Rokicki <[e-mail]>
Subject: AmigaTeX

> 1. Address, phone, fax

Radical Eye Software
P.O. Box 2081
Stanford, CA  94309
USA

Phone:  [phone]
FAX:  [phone]
BBS:  [phone]

> 2. system requirements

At least two floppies or a hard disk, and at least 512K of RAM.
Three megabytes of RAM is recommended.

> 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount

The main package is [US] $200; printer drivers are [US] $100 per set (organized
according to printer resolution).  Site licensing and group discounts
are available; write for information.  There is no special educational
pricing.

> and whatever else you would like to provide.

A free demo disk and product literature is available by sending Radical Eye
a FAX or a letter with your name and address.

3b. PasTeX 1.3 ==============================================================

There is also a Public Domain TeX called PasTeX.  Look on wuarchive,

/systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/pastex-1.3/

(see Appendix B for file listing)

The files are full disks compressed with Zoom, from Fish #682
ux1: /amiga/fish/f6/ff682/Zoom.lzh  89055 bytes

3c. DVIprint ================================================================

If you have AmigaTeX but no printer drivers, you can try using DVIprint
from the PasTeX distribution.  It works remarkably well, just make a
tex:config dir and put DVIprint.printers in it.

Host athene.uni-paderborn.de

    Location: /pcsoft/amiga/tex/pastex
           FILE -rw-r--r--      57858  May 26 00:00  dviprint.lha

3d. dvi2lj ==================================================================

If you have a LaserJet you may want to use dvi2lj instead of DVIprint,
it's on amiga.physik.unizh.ch (aminet) and mirrors

/amiga/text/tex/dvi2lj.lha  109185 bytes
[thanks to [e-mail] (Daniel Barrett) for this info]

3e. fig =====================================================================

Also for TeX you may want the fig package, for structured drawing.
On wuarchive,

/systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/fig.zom  319110 bytes

Uncompress with Zoom from Fish #682.

3f. ARexx macros for TeX ===================================================

I have uploaded ARexx macro things for TeXify and ToError for AmigaTex to
wuarchive, in /systems/amiga/incoming/utils

Ed-TeX-Rexx.lha    - AmigaTeX ARexx for Ed
Emacs-TeX-Rexx.lha - AmigaTeX ARexx for GNU emacs

There are also TeXify ARexx macro things for CED on wuarchive,
/systems/amiga/utilities/text/utils/texify-1.12.lzh

4. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26 ===================================================

The author of GNU emacs and various GNU UNIX command ports (ls, mv, grep, ...)
is David Gay.  You'll need a couple MB of hard disk and RAM.

They are available from amiga.physik and mirrors.

Also, wuarchive

/systems/amiga/incoming/utils/

a1.26-emacs-18.58-bin.LHA
(full emacs, also ls, grep, sort)

(See Appendix A&B)

Contact David Gay: [e-mail]

4a. fifo.library & Csh 5.19 ================================================

Along with GNU emacs you'll probably want the fifo.library from Fish 588.
ux1: /amiga/fish/f5/ff588/FifoLib.lzh  40222 bytes

Also you may want to replace the UNIX sh with csh 5.19 from Fish 624.  I needed
to do this to use a TeX-shell in GNUemacs TeX-mode. (NOTE: Using ARexx is
better than using the TeX-shell anyway.)
ux1: /amiga/fish/f6/ff624/Csh.lzh  415097 bytes

5. UNIX commands ===========================================================

Most UNIX commands are available:

GNUEMACS:c
  etags                            grep
  ls                               rmdir
  sort
MRMan
  MRMan
UNIX:fileutils-3.3/c
  chmod                            d = udir - does some dir thing, no man
  dd - convert a file while copying it
  ln                               (rmdir)
  mkdir                            mv
  rm                               touch
  udir = d                         v = vdir - does a list thing, no man
  vdir = v                         (ls)
UNIX:textutils-1.3/c
  cat                              cmp - compare two files
  comm   - compare two sorted files line by line
  csplit - split a file into sections  determined  by  context lines
  cut    - remove sections from each line of files
  expand - convert tabs to spaces
  fold   - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
  head
  nl     - number lines of files
  paste  - merge lines of files
  pr     - convert text files for printing
  split
  sum
  tac    - concatenate and print files in reverse
  tail                             tr - translate or delete characters
  ujoin                            unexpand
  uniq                             wc
UNIX:grep-1.6
  egrep                            (grep)
UNIX:diff-1.15
  diff
UNIX:compress-4.0
  compress
  uncompress
  zcat
UNIX:UnixUtils/c
  gnutar
  uncompressbatch
  unshar                           uudecode
  uuencode                         uusplit
UNIX:TarSplit
  tarsplit
EDITORS:ispell-3.3LJR
  ispell

See Appendix A and Appendix B for locations

5a. man ======================================================================

a UNIX-like "man" called MRMan is available on Fish #281

ux1: /amiga/fish/f2/ff281/MRMan.lzh  46332 bytes

This has zcat included with it.  It supports a MANPATH, your choice of "more"
like utility.  You can use it to access all of the man pages for the UNIX
textutils and fileutils.  The ones to put in the MANPATH are the pre-formatted
/cat directories (usually).

You may want to modify the code so that it will recognize *.1 as a valid man
file.  You can use NewZAP, from Fish #574
ux1: /amiga/fish/f5/ff574/NewZAP.lzh  29756 bytes

5b. diff ====================================================================

UNIX diff is available from

ftp.uu.net:/systems/amiga/dillon/diff115.lzh

Also see Appendix A, B.

5c. compress, uncompress, zcat  ============================================

compress is available in the compress-4.0 distribution.  Note that to get
uncompress and zcat you simply copy compress

copy compress uncompress
copy compress zcat

The program operates according to the name it is invoked with.

5d. tar ====================================================================

UNIX tar is available on Fish #445
ux1: /amiga/fish/f4/ff445/Tar.lzh  104399 bytes
It may give you a total system crash when extracting from an archive unless
you use NewZAP (Fish #574) to apply the patch in Tar/patch01/src/bin.patch1
A patched version is also available on wuarchive,

/systems/amiga/utilities/cli/archive/tar-patched.lzh  124633 bytes
[patching by (Alan Bair) [e-mail]]