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- From: mlednor@tower.demon.co.uk (Mark `Jay' Lednor)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!mlednor
- Subject: Re: Today's Mitzvah:Help w/SLIP&NOS&etc.etc.etc.
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- Organization: Private Internet Node
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:53:20 +0000
- Message-ID: <mlednor.0452@Tower.Demon.Co.Uk>
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- In article <1992Sep8.224724.14818@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- >
- > I'm REALLY confused!! Here's the situation:
- >
- > My school has just set up a network which allows dial-in SLIP
- > connections, from which one can access various internet functions from
- > their home. They are , of course, widely supporting its use for the MAC,
- > but are unlikely to even admit that the Amiga is an existing entity.
- > Now, knowing the dialup SLIP number, how can I use it with my Amiga?
- > I've been told to use AmigaNOS _over_ the dialup connection. I assume this
- > means to dial in with , say, JRComm, and then multitask AmigaNOS and switch
- > over to it.
-
- That is one method, but there is now a version of AmigaNOS that allows
- dialing that you should be able to use. You can find it on ftp.demon.co.uk
- in pub/amiga as DiallingAmigaNOS with a Readme file (or something like
- that).
-
- > But how do I set up, using AmigaNOS, my IP address, my host's
- > IP address, whatever else has to be set up?
-
- AmigaNOS has a nos-startup file that contains all this information, the
- documentation is a bit sparse, however, but any help regarding KA9Q
- software (either on the MAC or PC) should give you some pointers. I can
- post a working example for you to modify to your IP address and your host's.
-
- > Does NOS send commands through the modem? How else would it work?
-
- Exactly right!
-
- > Furthermore, say I wanted to read mail or read USENET, or FTP.
- > What programs for the Amiga would I need and how would I use them in
- > conjunction with JRCOMM, AmigaNOS, or whatever, to
- > accomplish what I want?
-
- AmigaNOS will receive and store mail and Usenet news for you, it provides
- a very simple mail reader but nothing to read news, but the later version
- can post news. I have an Arexx script to get the News into a format that
- GRn can handle, and another couple to post news and mail.
-
- > Does UUCP have anything to do with this?
- > What about the news readers like Ann or GrN?
-
- See above.
-
- > I really know very little
- > about all this stuff, so please help me as specifically as possible -
- > but any information si GREATLY appreciated. I WANT to prove the school
- > wrong, and that the Amiga CAN be a useful, usable computer.
-
- It is... I use DiallingAmigaNOS every day (this message was brought to you
- by DiallingAmigaNOS in fact) and so do several other people using Demon
- Internet Services here in the UK.
-
- > Thanks in advance,
- >
- > Aaron
-
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