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- !TCPIP v2.03 (21-Feb-1995) Internet Application suite
- ========================== for Risc OS
-
- Contents
- ~~~~~~~~
- ReadMe This file.
- !TCPIP !TCPIP Application
- !TCPIPUser !TCPIP Resources
- TCPIP_Doc
- .History History of changes since v1.3x
- .Notes Some brief notes on some new facilties since v2.0
- TCPIP_New First time installation help
-
- It is well worth reading the history files as these cover most of
- changes in commands and use since v1.3x.
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- First Time
- ~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Actually, first time installation is probably the easiest of the lot.
-
- Before you carry out instalation, you will need to know the following:
-
- Your machine's name, for eg "comptech"
-
- The name of your domain, for eg "demon.co.uk"
-
- Your IP address, for eg "158.152.25.231"
-
- What serial port you want use, so that you can select
- the required driver and speed.
-
- The name or IP address of a news server that you are allowed to use if
- you wish to recive news.
-
- The name or IP address of a mail gateway that you are allowed to use if
- you wish outgoing mail to be routed via a single machine (often saves
- on online time, though of course !TCPIP can quite happily work without
- a mail gateway.)
-
- The name or IP address of a time server that you are allowed to use if
- you wish to read network time and correct your computers clock with it.
-
- The IP addresses of between one and three name servers if you are
- connecting to the Internet, rather than a small private TCP/IP based
- network.
-
- It is beyind the scope of this to give expanations of the above.
- There is plenty of literature around to enable you to understand news
- servers, name servers, mail gateways, IP addresses, host names etc.
-
- You should be able to find out all of the above information from your
- Internet provider, usually with a quick phone call.
-
-
- Assuming you have the above information, then create a directory
- called "Internet", or "TCPIP" for example on your hard disc and unpack
- the contents of this archive into it.
-
- This should leave you with a directory structure as follows:
- Internet.!TCPIP
- Internet.!TCPIPUser
- Internet.TCPIP_Doc
- Internet.TCPIP_New
- ReadMe (This file)
-
- Now open the TCPIP_New directory and load the !Setup file into a text
- editor and enter the details where indicated.
-
-
- Once you have done this, save the !Setup file back to where is was.
-
- In case your unpacked this with an archive filing system, I would
- suggest that you now open the !TCPIPUser directory and double click on
- the !Boot file so that you can be sure that the config program will
- find the correct copy of !TCPIPUser.
-
- Now double-click on the !Config file. This will Merge the configuration
- information you have provided with a set of default setup files, leaving
- you with a working setup.
-
-
- Upgrading from v2.01
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The following files in !TCPIPUser have changed, been relocated, or are
- new:
-
-
- !Boot Path variable updated, including corrected FTP$Dir.
-
- !Run Now only opens the Downloads directory.
-
- Downloads The default place in which downloaded files are saved.
-
- FTP.Accounts Path processing control for the FTP client.
-
- FTP.FTPUsers User access control for FTP server.
- This file has been moved to here.
-
- FTP.PathEnt Path processing control for the FTP client.
- This file has been moved to here.
-
- Menus.* A new set of menus to enable access to new facilties.
-
- Config A new variable is required at the top of the file and
- some new command options are available.
-
-
- There are two options for upgrading, one is to do a fresh instalation as
- above, or the other is to delete the menus.* files, and replace !Boot, !Run,
- and menus from the Archive. Copy PathEnt out of the Archive into
- !TCPIPUser, create a directory "Downloads" in !TCPIPUser and make a few
- small changes to you config file as follows:
-
- 1. At the top, with all the set or setvar commands, add
-
- set nsqserver "ns.{domain}"
-
- This sets the name server used by the nsquery menus.
-
- 2. You may want to change the "attach asy ... ... slip ..." command
- fromm "slip" to "cslip" to take advantage of the slight speed
- increase CSLIP offser over SLIP. Check with your provider that CSLIP
- is supported, and also check if you need to select a different
- protocol at the initial login stage.
-
- 3. Locate the "nntp xxx" commands and add "nntp trim 48". This sets the
- maximum age of the NNTP ID History - yes it now gets trimmed. ;-)
-
- 4. If you are using Demon's News servers, it is worth adding
- "nntp retry 5 10" to you config file. This will cause the NNTP client
- to retry a news connection when it is rejected by the news server.
-
- 5. You will probably want to add ftpopt command for presetting FTP
- client options. See FTPClient for details.
-
- 6. You may want to ammend the FTP.Accounts file to reflect the sites
- you use, so that you get full use from the new "aftp" command.
-
-
- Upgrading from v2.02 (Not the later 2.02b)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- I would recommend that you update you menus and incorporate changes to
- the Config file. All of the file changed since v2.01 have also changes
- since the first v2.02 (dev) release.
-
-
- Upgrading from v2.02b
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Sorry, the ID history has reverted back to separate files for each
- server, so you will need to copy the "History" file as "xxxHist" for
- each server you use, where "xxx" is the abbreviation for the server.
-
- Other than that, you only actually need the new !RunImage from this
- archive.
-
- It would be worth incorporating Config file differences outline for
- upgrading from v2.01.
-
-
- Upgrading from v2.03
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The only thing you need to include from this archive is the new
- !RunImage. Replace the exiating one in !TCPIP.
-
- It would be worth incorporating Config file differences outline for
- upgrading from v2.01.
-
-
- Contacts
- ~~~~~~~~
- For !TCPIP:
- Bug reports, suggestions etc to tcpip2@comptech.demon.co.uk.
- Using this address will ensure that both myself and Anthony Frost will
- get to read it.
-
- Adam Goodfellow (Me) <adam@comptech.demon.co.uk>
- Anthony Frost <vulch@kernow.demon.co.uk>
-
-
- Source code
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- The source code for this version of !TCPIP is contained in the archive
- tcpip-204-src.arc.gz and may be found at:
-
- ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/archimedes/developers/tcpip-204-src.arc.gz
-
- A copy of will also be eventually available on micros.hensa.ac.uk in the
- RISC OS section.
-
- Generally, rather than distributing complete source archives for each
- update, I will be only be distributing archives containined changed
- files, unless the size of the resulting archive is approaching half the
- size of the original source dstribution archive, or the are allready
- three significant updates available since the last complete source
- release.
-
-
- Support Software
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Other useful software, all available from ftp.demon.co.uk in
- /pub/archimedes:
-
- !SlipDial (Dialer, needed for !TCPIP)
- Contact: Graham Allan <gta@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu>
-
- !Newsbase (news and mail debatcher, use with !TTFN)
- Contact: Graham Allan <gta@mnhep1.hep.umn.edu>
-
- !TTFN (News/Mail reader, use with !Newsbase)
- Contact: Robert Orwin <rob@wong.demon.co.uk>
-
- !QEdit (Outgoing Mail and News queue last-minute editor, for use with
- !TCPIP and !Newsbase)
- Contact: David Croft <david@runge1.demon.co.uk>
-
- !ArcWeb (World Wide Web Browser)
- Contact: Stewart Brodie <S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
-
- !ArcWebK9Q (HTTP Fetcher for !ArcWeb and !TCPIP)
- Contact: Kevin F. Quinn <kevq@banana.demon.co.uk>
-
- !Gopher (Gopher client for !TCPIP)
- Contact: Anthony Frost <vulch@kernow.demon.co.uk>
-
- A complete Internet starter pack containg !TCPIP and much of the above
- is also available from the same place.
- Contact: Dr Alan Hassey <alan@midwife.demon.co.uk>
-
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- Adam Goodfellow <adam@comptech.demon.co.uk> 04/03/95
-