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From: "French Luser" <Bill.Ga...@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
References: <41ab2c7e$0$31672$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> <cogvus$be9$3@domitilla.aioe.org>
Subject: Re: AFTER8 File Format
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:44:51 +0100
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Hello, "Anonymous Guy"!
The reason why I had not mentioned the name of this program
were twofold:
1) I wanted to know if you would clearly volunteer to do something
2) As I typed this answer from the cybercafe, I had forgotten most
details about this program. Back home, I edited one of its file.
Yours Sincerely,
"French Luser"
MINUET.TXT (File MINUET.DOC edited by Emmanuel ROCHE.)
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Minuet (Minnesota INternet User's Essential Tool)
Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 - University of Minnesota
Minuet was developed and is maintained by the University of
Minnesota. For University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and
students, Minuet is available without fee. Although commercial
distribution is restricted, you may freely give Minuet to your
friends. Minuet is distributed as shareware. If, after trying
the program for 15 days, you decide to continue using it, you
must register your copy by sending $50 to:
Distributed Computing Services
attn: minuet shareware
190 Shepherd Labs
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Site licences are also available. Contact
softw...@boombox.micro.umn.edu for further info.
Developed by:
George Gonzalez,
Kim Pearson,
Earl Schleske
Phil Kachelmyer,
Steven Collins.
Overview
--------
Minuet is an integrated package of TCP/IP network tools for the
IBM PC and compatibles.
It is aimed at all network users that wish to do email and other
Internet services with a minimum of fuss and bother.
Minuet includes:
* Electronic Mail
* NetNews
* Telnet
* World Wide Web
* Gopher
* FTP
* Address book (Finger)
* and more...
General overview
----------------
E-MAIL
------
Minuet's e-mail is derived from the U of Minn "POPMail" package.
Minuet e-mail, like POPMail, is an easy-to-use SMTP (internet)
mail client. User's of POPMail should be able to use Minuet mail
with little or no trouble.
NetNews
-------
Minuet's "news" window lets you access UseNet newsgroups.
It has a simple point and click interface that lets you easily:
* Choose from a list of newsgroups you are interested in.
* Fetch a number of news messages
* View the messages.
* Compose follow-ups or new news messages.
Using Minuet's news requires very little extra learning, as it
uses the same user interface as Minuet mail. News messages are
treated just like mail messages. All the operations one can
perform on Minuet mail can also be done on news messages. This
erases some of the artificial boundaries between e-mail and
netnews.
World Wide Web
--------------
Minuet has a World Wide Web brower built-in. With it, you can
view any Web document. It even displays graphics on EGA or
newer video displays.
Minuet now has a pretty good WWW browser. It displays HTML
documents in the standard way. If you have an EGA or better
Video display, Minuet can display graphic images, such a inline
GIF and JPEG images.
Graphics works best on a VGA or Super-VGA VESA display, running
on a fast 386 or better CPU.
If you have an older PC, Minuet's WWW browser may be a bit too
slow for extensive use. You can still use it in text mode and
browse through everything, but graphic images.
Gopher
------
Minuet includes a general-purpose Gopher client.
Gopher is a distributed information service developed at the U
of Minn. With the Gopher window in Minuet, you can browse
through a great deal of information put up on Gopher servers
worldwide.
For instance, with a few simple clicks, you can:
* Access a library of song lyrics.
* Browse the library catalog at Long Beach's library.
* Peruse MIT's student conduct code.
* View the list of databases at a tech institute in Israel.
FTP
---
Minuet includes a simple FTP client. Again, a point and click
interface makes it easy for anyone to send or receive files.
Minuet's FTP client overcomes many of the typical hangups with
using FTP:
* Automatically displays the available files in a tree-like format.
* Automatically determines the transfer mode for most files.
* Automatically determines what are directories and files.
* Displays file sizes.
* Built-in text browser for "README" files and the like.
Minuet's FTP client is not a FTP "server".
Graphics
--------
You can now configure Minuet to run in a wide variety of display
modes. There is a new Setup//Monitors dialog box that lets you
choose from a wide variety of display modes.
The modes you can use may be limited by your particular video
adapter or monitor. But Minuet lets you use virtually any mode
that can possibly run on your PC.
You can choose between text modes of 24 lines by 80 characters,
or 42 lines by 132 characters.
You can choose graphics modes with 16, 256, or 65,536 colors.
These can be in resolutions of 640x480 up to 1600x1280.
GIF and JPEG images look best at 256 or more colors. The higher
resolutions also let you see more of the document at a time.
However, the higher the resolution or number of colors, the
slower the display will update.
You will need a VESA compatible video card, or an older card
with a VESA driver added, to make use of the higher video modes.
All the colors in Minuet are now editable. The normal suite of
colors is quite adequate for most purposes. See the
EXTRAS\MINUET.DEF file for further info.
URLs
----
Minuet now understands URL's (Uniform Resource Locators). You
can click on a URL and ask Minuet to open that document. Minuet
calls on its Internet tools to fetch WWW documents, FTP files,
Telnet sessions, Gopher sessions, and mail. You don't need any
external programs or viewers for any of these URL's -- Minuet
can handle them all.
Minuet also keeps a log of recently accessed URLs, so you can
easily revisit favorite URLs.
Multi-Tasking
-------------
Previous versions of Minuet did a limited amount of
Multi-tasking. For example, you could have Telnet and/or FTP
running in the background while you browsed through mail. But
that was about the extent of it.
In this version, every part of Minuet is Multi-Tasking. For
example, you can be fetching news, fetching mail, sending mail,
and using WWW, all at the same time. There are no more modes
where you have to wait for Mail fetching or sending to finish.
Internationalization
--------------------
All the text in Minuet is now editable. Most users in
English-speaking countries can use the built-in English text
suite. Users in other cultures may wish to translate the text
into other languages. Note that this is not an easy task, as
there are over 1800 text messages to translate. See the
EXTRAS\MINUET.MSG file for further instructions on this.
EOF