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- This is the basics which are in 4 parts:
-
- I. GENERAL
- II. VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS
- III. PALM TOP USERS (HP95,HP100,HP200, and OG700)
- IV. XT/286 Users (And other PDA's)
-
- You should read the first section and any other section which might
- pertain to you.
-
- I. GENERAL -
-
- Q: What do I have to do first?
-
- A: Before you run Net-Tamer for the first time you should have signed
- up for a PPP account with a local internet provider, or have access to
- a PPP/TCP-IP connection on your comm port.
-
- You should get the following information from your internet provider.
- Don't worry, if you don't know what all of it means. If the person you
- speak to on the telephone doesn't know the information, then ask to speak
- to "the techie".
-
- 1) The address of the services DNS server and an alternate, if one is
- available. This comes in the form of numbers, such as: 206.102.200.1
-
- 2) The URL's for POP3, SMTP, and NNTP. Or:
-
- pop3 such as: mail.peganet.com
- SMPT, such as: mail.peganet.com
- News Server, such as: news.peganet.com
-
- 3) Your Email address, such as: sg@peganet.com
-
- 4) Your login username, such as: sg (or the first part of your E-Mail
- address.
-
- 5) Your login password. This is most times case sensative, so be
- careful how you copy it down.
-
- 6) Your email password, if this is different from the login password.
- (They are usually the same.)
-
- 7) The telephone number of the service, if you are not on a direct
- comm port connection. If you want call waiting to be interrupted while
- you're on line put a *70, before the telephone number. You will be
- asked for it during setup.
-
- In addition, you also need to know the following:
- 1) The comm port of the modem. You do not worry about the IRQ, unless
- you know that you are not on a "standard port". If you cannot find this
- information, then start by choosing COMM 1 and change to COMM 2, if this
- does not work. If all else fails, check the settings in some other
- terminal program.
-
- 2) You need to know the init string for your modem. If you do not know
- and have a Hayes compatible, then use AT&F^MAT&C1&D2&S1^M. If you have
- a Sporterster or U.S. Robotics, then try ATZ^M.
-
- Q: Okay, I did all of that. What next?
-
- A: You need to decide on a login script. There are four furnished with
- the *.ZIP file. You can try them each in turn (SERVICE1.LOG) will
- work for most users. If none of them work, then you can use dumb
- terminal mode. Hit alt + =, and type atdt plus the phone number. Then
- when you have logged in, hit alt + p to start PPP negotiations.
- You may also write your own script. See the nettamer.doc file.
- There are also scripts in the DOC for some providers, such as
- COMPUSERV. Your's may be among those.
-
- Q: How do I setup the program?
-
- A: For the first time only, you MUST run reader.exe. This program
- has all the file viewing stuff and does the initial setup. Most often
- after that, you will want to start nettamer first. You will want
- to start reader, if you only want to read mail, redo your defaults,
- or use some of the utility features in that program. Answer all
- questions in setup, EVEN if you think they do not apply to you.
-
- Q: If I do login using the alt + = routine, how do I get email,
- etc.?
-
- A: You need to real the terminal.key file. This will tell you the
- hot keys to start any service online.
-
- I am including them here, but you can read any of them from within
- the program, by pressing the F1 key and selecting the file that
- you want to read.
-
- Terminal keys:
- F1 - HELP
- F4 - HANG UP phone/log off
- F10 - TERMINATE the program
- alt + a - ALTERNATE number to call for long on. This is a temporary
- change and is discarded, after connecting and logging off.
- alt + c - CLEAR terminal screen
- alt + d - DATE and time for your server with the correction for UST (GMT)
- alt + e - EDIT a text file.
- alt + f - FTP mode
- alt + h - HELP
- alt + i - FINGER utility
- alt + m - MAIL, while on line gets and sends (if any) mail messages
- alt + p - PING a url
- alt + q - QUIT and log off
- alt + r - READ a text/html file, show graphics file, or play sound file
- - or shell to and RUN another program.
- alt + s - SHELL out to dos.
- alt + t - TELNET mode
- alt + u - get USENET messages (usenet.get file must be ready)
- alt + w - WWW mode
- alt + x - eXit the program (same as F10, but does not work in all section
- of the program. F10 does. This is included by "custom"<G>.)
- alt + y - toggle sound/music on and off (temporary change, 386 only)
- alt + = - dumb terminal mode, alt + P to start packet mode after login.
- (Alt + P online starts the PING module.)
- <Esc> - ESCAPE/Stop File Transfer or Socket Open, or leave site.
- alt + esc - EMERGENCY ESCAPE. Shut down all sockets, files, and
- return to terminal screen, but remain online.
- Cancels Log off and/or autorun. You should log off, if you use
- this option!
-
- WWW.KEY:
- F1 - help
- F10 - quit the program
- Cursor and enter on the option you want, or press the letter of
- the choice.
- alt + s - shell to DOS
- ctrl + f- Add To Page To BOOKMARK.FAV (favorite sites)
- ctrl + s- SAVE an HTML file you are viewing.
- <Esc> - Stop File Transfer or Socket Open, exit www site. If last
- Site then exit WWW mode.
- Cursor Left to Go Back One Page
- Page Up or Page Down to View more
-
- VIEW.KEY
- You may also mouse the bottom screen line or a letter key, if listed.
- Mousing a space is the same as enter. Mousing a letter is the same as typing
- the letter. You may also mouse the up and down arrows.
- ____________________________________________________________________________
- A = Add to address list. G = Get older msg. E = Edit/Review address file.
- R = Reply/Review Reply current msg. W = Write a new message.
- Q = Quit Viewing. V or L = View/list of Msgs. (with extra commands).
- K = Kill Reply or Msg.(next pass)
- N = Next Subject. F = Search for text. S= Save Msg. to printer or disk.
- Y = Yours (messages written to you). U = Unreplied Email. J = Jump to Msg. #
- D = Delete this message when you are through viewing.
- SPACE or ENTER = Next Message. PgUp - Scroll Up. PgDn Scroll Down.
- HOME = First message in the file. END = Last message in the file.
- Cursor Up = Scroll Up one line. Cursor Down = Scroll Down one line.
- Alt + A = Get File From Work Space
- Alt + F = Forward EMAIL or Msg.
- Alt + G = Grab or steal a message line from this message, to tag file or
- address.lst
- Alt + Q = Delete all msgs. with this subject.
- Alt + R = Read/Edit NON MESSAGE FILE.
- Alt + S = Shell out to DOS. Type exit to return to program.
- Alt + U = Run UUDECODE/BASE64 DECODE for all file with the .UUE/.64 extentio
- Ctrl + R = Short Cut Reply. Quick direct reply to the currently viewed
- message, with no options for change. It also allows you to
- write a second reply to the same message. If you hit CTRL + R,
- you do not view and existing reply, instead you start a new one.
-
-
- FTP.KEY:
- F1 - help
- F10 - quit the program
- Cursor to and enter on the option you want. If it is a file, it will
- be downloaded, if it is a directory, you will be taken to it.
- alt + q - quit FTP mode
- alt + s - shell to DOS
- <Esc> - Stop File Transfer or Socket Open, exit ftp mode.
-
- TELNET.KEY:
- F1 - help
- F10 - quit the program
- pgdn - start xmodem download. Must be connect to a BBS.
- alt + q - quit telnet mode
- alt + c - start a capture file
- alt + s - shell to DOS
- insert - Transmit what you have typed. This is not needed, if
- you have hit enter or a control character. It is needed
- if you have to type a single "hard character", such as a
- space or q to get something done by a server, such as Lynx.
- Cursor Keys do not need this.
- <Esc> - Stop File Transfer or Socket Open, exit telnet.
-
-
- II. VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS.
-
- Q. Most modern screen readers don't need BIOS screen writes,
- so why should I take that option?
-
- A. That allows me to control what gets spoken to you. You would not
- want to hear the clock counting the seconds in the terminal screen,
- for instance.
-
- Q. What else should I know?
-
- You should blank the 25th line of the terminal screen, during an
- auto run. The status line is sent to the bios, but it will yak
- you to death as well as slow down things. Peek it occasionally
- to see what is going on, so you will know the program is not
- stuck.
-
-
- III. PALM TOP USERS.
-
- Q. What are the "minimum" file for may palm top drive? After all
- space is not unlimited!
-
- A. You only need: nettamer.exe, reader.exe, red.com, and one
- login script. Service*.log for example.
-
- IV. XT/286 Users.
-
- Q. What is the XT version missing?
-
- A. There is no mouse support, inline graphics support, or sound support.
- Otherwise, you can do anything else the "big boys" can<G>.
-
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