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============ NOSview [304]
!!README.1ST
============
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INTRODUCTION
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NOSview is an on-line documentation and runtime package for the
KA9Q Network Operating System (NOS).
This is version [304]; that is, it was released in:
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year 199[3]----+||
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week [04]-----++
This README file describes how to install the package.
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NOSview [304] Distribution
--------------------------
This version of NOSview comprises the following ZIP files:
NOSVIEW.ZIP Brief intro to NOSview
Contains: !WELCOME.TXT
NOSVW304.ZIP The main NOSview [304] distribution
Contains: !!README.1ST
NOSGAS.ZIP (remaining NOSview files)
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NOSVIEW INSTALLATION
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Preliminaries
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Hardware Requirements: 80x86 machine with at least 640 KB RAM
2 MB hard disk storage.
Software Prerequisites: DOS version 3 or later, or
DR-DOS version 6 or later.
Before installation, you need to decide where to put the NOSview
package. You can locate it in any subdirectory on your system.
In this distribution, the default NOS root directory is C:\NOS.
***** When NOS is running, other users may log into your system
and browse through your files, from the NOS root level downwards.
For this reason it's strongly recommended that you do NOT choose
C:\ as the NOS root, or any other existing directory containing
sensitive files.
***** The installation process doesn't at any time read or alter
your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. However, after
installing NOSview, you will need to make minor additions to
these files and reboot the system before running NOS.
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Installation
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The installation process is very simple. In the description that
follows, the NOS root is shown as "c:\nos". Replace this with
your chosen NOS root directory if you're not using the default.
Also, it is assumed that the NOSview distribution files are
located on a diskette in drive a:. Replace "a:" with the
appropriate drive letter if you're using a different drive.
The installation process doesn't write anything to the diskette,
so you can safely make it read-only.
First you create a new directory for the NOS root (e.g. c:\nos),
CD into this directory and unzip NOSVW304.ZIP into it. This will
give you two files in the NOS root directory: !!README.1ST (this
file) and NOSGAS.ZIP.
You will then unzip NOSGAS.ZIP to extract the NOSview
distribution.
To do all of this, give the following DOS commands:
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MKDIR c:\nos Make the NOS root directory
CD c:\nos Go to the NOS root directory
PKUNZIP a:\NOSVW304.ZIP Get the NOSGAS zip file
PKUNZIP -D NOSGAS.ZIP Unzip the NOS "Get-away Special"
*** DON'T FORGET THE "-D" OPTION **
DEL *.ZIP
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!!!!!! The second unzip operation uses the -D option, which
automatically creates all the necessary subdirectories as
it goes along. DON'T FORGET THE -D OPTION, OTHERWISE ALL
THE FILES WILL FINISH UP IN THE NOS ROOT DIRECTORY -- you
will then have to delete all the files and start again.
After completing the unzipping, you will find files in the
following directories:
c:\nos\
c:\nos\DUMP\
c:\nos\DUMP\RECORD\
c:\nos\DUMP\TRACE\
c:\nos\ETC\
c:\nos\ETC\LPD\
c:\nos\FINGER\
c:\nos\PUBLIC\
c:\nos\PUBLIC\MASTERS\
c:\nos\PUBLIC\NOSDOCS\
c:\nos\PUBLIC\NOSVIEW\
C;\nos\SCRIPTS\
c:\nos\SPOOL\
c:\nos\SPOOL\HELP\
c:\nos\SPOOL\LPD\
c:\nos\SPOOL\MAIL\
c:\nos\SPOOL\MQUEUE\
c:\nos\SPOOL\NEWS\
c:\nos\SPOOL\RQUEUE\
c:\nos\SPOOL\SIGNATUR\
c:\nos\TMP\
Some of these directories contain a dummy file called
DEADBEEF.000. These files are included to make PKUNZIP create
what would otherwise be empty directories. You may safely delete
all DEADBEEF.000 files after installation. (Why "DEADBEEF" you
may ask? Well, it turns out that a very well-known software
development company uses the hexadecimal number "0xdeadbeef" when
initialising registers to a "don't care" value, so it seemed that
"DEADBEEF" would be a good name for dummy files. Ah well ....).
For a complete directory tree listing, see the NOSview file
!DIRTREE.
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Editing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
-----------------------------------
Having unzipped NOSGAS.ZIP, you need to edit AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS before running NOSview.
In the case of AUTOEXEC.BAT, all you need to do is add this line
at the end of the file:
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CALL c:\nos\NOSENV.BAT
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In the case of CONFIG.SYS, you need to add a SHELL statement and
a LASTDRIVE statement:
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SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P
LASTDRIVE=Z
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If you have installed NOSview in the default NOS root directory
C:\NOS, you can skip the next section.
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Changing the NOS root
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If you did NOT install NOSview in the default NOS root directory,
you must now make a few small changes to three files, to ensure
that the correct NOS environment is set up at runtime.
For example, if you located NOSview in "e:\comms\nos", you need
to make the following changes.
In C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, make the CALL to NOSENV.BAT look like this:
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CALL e:\comms\nos\NOSENV.BAT
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In e:\comms\nos\NOSENV.BAT, change these lines:
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SUBST N: e:\comms\nos
SUBST M: e:\comms\nos\SPOOL\MAIL
SUBST Q: e:\comms\nos\SPOOL\MQUEUE
SUBST R: e:\comms\nos\DUMP\RECORD
SUBST T: e:\comms\nos\DUMP\TRACE
SUBST V: e:\comms\nos\PUBLIC\NOSVIEW
SET HOME=e:\comms\nos
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In e:\comms\nos\PCELM.RC, change these lines:
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smtp e:/comms/nos/spool/mail
queuedir e:/comms/nos/spool/mqueue
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(Note the FORWARD slashes here).
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Optional Installation
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Before starting NOSview, there is an additional step you might
wish to take. The three main NOSview directories (MASTERS,
NOSDOCS and NOSVIEW) are located in the public directory
c:\nos\PUBLIC, so that users logging in to your system can
browse through the files located there. To prevent people
accidentally or deliberately changing these files, it's
recommended that you set the read-only attribute:
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CD c:\nos\PUBLIC
ATTRIB +R MASTERS\*.*
ATTRIB +R NOSDOCS\*.*
ATTRIB +R NOSVIEW\*.*
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STARTING NOSVIEW
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You are now ready to reboot the system. Remove the NOSview
distribution diskette from the drive and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL.
When the system starts running again, you should now see the
following message:
....................................................
: Loading VIEW - Clockwork's Resident File Viewer. :
: To activate press:- RShift and SPC :
:..................................................:
This is the public domain file viewer program called "VIEW",
distributed with NOSview. VIEW is loaded when AUTOEXEC.BAT makes
the CALL to c:\nos\NOSENV.BAT.
Test the operation of VIEW by pressing the right shift key
and the space bar simultaneously. The Clockwork View
introduction screen should appear. Use the PgDn and PgUp keys to
examine the help menus.
Then test the file viewer, by pressing F3. The prompt
"Load file: *.*"
should then appear. Press Return. This should pop up a list of
files in the current directory. Move the arrow keys up or down
to select a particular file, then press Return again. The
selected file should now appear.
Use the "G" and/or "H" key to change the display format if
necessary. Finally press Escape to exit from VIEW.
Finally, check that the DOS drive environment variables defined
in NOSENV.BAT have been set up properly, by giving the SUBST
command:
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C:\NOS> SUBST
{DOS should reply:}
M: => c:\nos\SPOOL\MAIL
N: => c:\nos
Q: => c:\nos\SPOOL\MQUEUE
R: => c:\nos\DUMP\RECORD
T: => c:\nos\DUMP\TRACE
V: => c:\nos\PUBLIC\NOSVIEW
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NOSview is now ready for use. File "!!README.2ND" continues the
story.
Ian Wade, G3NRW
NOSview Release [304]
January 1993