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- Acornet 0.20
- ============
- 23 August 1997
-
- Acornet is a suite of software which will allow you to use the Internet over
- a dial-up connection. It is not a single application, but a convenient
- meshing together of a number of applications written by many people. The
- Help file (see below) contains full details. Details of releases, upgrades
- and other support information can be found on the Web at
- http://freenet.barnet.ac.uk/acornet/
-
- Licence
- -------
- Generally the applications comprising Acornet are Freeware: that is, they may
- be freely distributed in their original form so long as no charge (other than
- nominal cost of media and carriage) is made, but the copyright remains with
- the authors. But see the documentation on each application for precise terms
- and conditions.
-
- The Acornet collection as a whole is 'CiderWare', which is a super-set of
- 'FreeWare'. All the conditions of FreeWare apply, but with the added
- stipulation that if you bump into the original author (Phillip Temple) in a
- pub, you are obligated to buy him a decent pint of Scrumpy. Should Scrumpy
- not be availably, a suitable decent dry cider may be substituted instead.
-
- The software is provided in the hope that it will be useful, but without any
- warranty of any kind.
-
- Requirements
- ------------
- RISC OS 3.10 or greater.
- Probably 4Mb RAM.
- A hard disk with >10Mb free (about 5Mb for initial installation, then to
- allow space for news, email and Web cache).
- A modem.
- An account with an Internet Service Provider (e.g. Demon) which allows access
- via a dial-up SLIP or PPP link.
- If using PPP, the Shareware PPP driver written by Sergio Monesi (the DCI2
- version, i.e. version 1.xx). This is available from (amongst other places)
- http://cdc8g5.cdc.polimi.it/~pel0015/pppdriver.html
- and an older version is on the Acorn User CD ROM 2 in the SHAREWRE directory.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- You should have received Acornet either as a single Spark archive or as a set
- of five archives. If a single archive, unpack its contents into a directory
- (folder) on your hard disk. If a set of archives, unpack the contents of all
- the archives into the same directory on your hard disk, thus merging together
- the contents of the !Acornet application directories from each archive.
- It is recommended that you use either the root directory or a first level
- subdirectory. This is because Acornet and its component applications use
- many levels of directory, and if the full filenames so generated are too long
- it may cause problems.
-
- If you have received Acornet as a multi-part archive (e.g. split over a
- number of floppy disks), extract the contents of each archive into the same
- directory to merge the parts together.
-
- Updating your System folder
- ---------------------------
- Run the SysMerge application. Drag your existing !System into the window,
- followed by the !System which you extracted from the Acornet archive.
-
- Note: If your machine is fitted with RISC OS 3.50 or later (e.g. a Risc PC or
- A7000), your master !System folder is found inside the !Boot application.
- Do a SHIFT double-click SELECT on !Boot to open it as a Filer window and then
- double-click on the Resources folder to open that; inside you will find
- !System. The System update feature of the built-in Configure utility, which
- normally runs when you double-click on !Boot, is faulty and will not perform
- the update correctly.
-
- Once you have updated your !System, you must SHUT DOWN and RESTART the
- machine in order to kill any old versions of modules which may be in memory.
- If you don't, things may not work as expected, and may even cause the machine
- to lock up.
-
- Help information
- ----------------
- Information on various aspects of Acornet may be obtained by clicking MENU
- over the !Acornet application and selecting the App.'!Acornet'⇨Help menu item.
- When Acornet is running, the help can also be accessed from the 'i' icon on
- the control panel.
-
- Setting up
- ----------
- Double-click on the !Acornet application. After few seconds of
- initialisation, you will be put straight into the configuration utility,
- NetConfig. Follow the instructions to supply the various details as
- required. (When you have done this set-up, on future occasions, running the
- application will launch you straight into Acornet itself.)
-
- Versions
- --------
- The versions of the component applications included in this release of
- Acornet are:
-
- * FreeNet 1.02
- * SlipDial 0.42a
- * SerialDev Rev 12
- * ArcWeb 1.90p1
- * Freeterm 1.32
- * FreeTime 1.03
- * Newsbase 0.59d
- * Messenger 1.02
- * Groups 0.20
- * QEdit 0.58e
- * NewsHound 1.21
- * POP 0.99
- * FreeSMTP 1.21
- * FreeFTP 0.45beta
- * Ping 0.13
- * Finger 0.13
- * NetConfig 2.5
- * StrongHelp 2.03
- * AnUpgrade 1.00
-
- --
- Written by Colin Hogben (acornet@nyphot.demon.co.uk)
- Modified by Carol Carpenter (carol@nocturnal.demon.co.uk)
-
-