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- Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
- AmigaGuide® format
-
- Edition 1.1
- Copyright ©1993, Electronic Freedom Foundation
-
- This archive contains the complete Big Dummy's Guide in AmigaGuide® format.
- The guide was prepared for Electronic Frontier Foundation and is a
- excellent introduction to the Net.
-
- This revised edition corrects some mistakes in the original and adds some
- additional information. The index to the AmigaGuide version has been
- extended.
-
- To use this version under release 1.3 or 2.x of the OS, you will need to
- obtain the AmigaGuide utility program. Under Release 3.0, you can use the
- guide with MultiView.
-
- The text version from which this AmigaGuide was built is available by
- anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org. The text version is
-
- /pub/EFF/papers/big-dummys-guide.txt
-
- The guide may also be obtained in HyperCard format for the Mac.
-
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- About this guide:
-
- This AmigaGuide version was prepared by Robin Evans (robin@halcyon.com).
-
- The menus in the guide are recursive: If you choose an item from one of
- the menu (multi-button) pages you will be able to read all other nodes on
- the same level by pressing the Browse key. At the end on the current level,
- you will be returned to the menu page from which you began. Pressing Browse
- again will take you to the next node on that level.
-
- To run it, put all the files in a directory and click on the icon. If
- you start it from the CLI or from a directory utility, you may have to add
- the path of this guide to the env: variable amigaguide/path. (See the
- AmigaGuide help node -- press help when AmigaGuide is open -- for more
- information on the environmental variables.)
-
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Copyright permission:
-
- Below is a letter from EFF granting permission to distribute this version:
-
- From ssteele@eff.org Mon Aug 30 10:03:22 1993
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 13:03:08 -0400
- Message-Id: <199308301703.AA07634@eff.org>
- To: Robin Evans <robin@halcyon.com>
- From: ssteele@eff.org (Shari Steele)
- Subject: Re: Dummy's Guide in AmigaGuide format
- Cc: sac@apple.com, adamg@world.std.com
- Status: R
-
- Hi Robin.
- We'd very much appreciate it if you'd release it. Please do send me a copy
- in the Amiga version, and we'll try to put it up onto our ftp site with the
- other versions.
- Shari
-
- >First, thank you for the wonderful Big Dummy's Guide to Internet. Although
- >I've downloaded megabytes of information about the Net, I'm still pretty
- >much a big dummy when it comes to using it. This guide is a tremendous help.
- >
- >To make it more accessible on my system, I spent a little time to format it
- >in the hypertext format released by Commodore. Called AmigaGuide, it is
- >meant mainly for on-line help systems.
- >
- >I have made these slight modifications for the new format: rearranged some
- >of the sections in the .txt file; added a few sentences on two of the
- >introductory nodes; added a text file explaining the Amiga ftp sites called
- >Aminet. Otherwise the text is unchanged.
- >
- >Could I get your permission to release this? I would be happy to send you a
- >copy of the reformatted file before releasing it. The AmigaGuide format is
- >human-readable, so you will not need an Amiga to review the text.
- >
- > Robin Evans robin@halcyon.com
- > r.evans6@genie.geis.com
-
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-
- AmigaGuide is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga Inc.
- HyperCard is a trademark of Apple
-