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- PowWow Version 1.3b User's Guide
- for Microsoft Windows
- Copyright (c) 1995 Tribal Voice
-
-
- Overview
-
- PowWow is an Internet chat, file transfer and Web Browser interface program
- that allows group cruising of the World Wide Web. Version 1.3 allows two
- people to chat and cruise together. Group cruising works only with Netscape
- browser 1.1 or later. PowWow allows you to establish a connection to
- another person on the Internet who is using PowWow by specifying their
- email address. You do not need to know their IP address. Dynamic IP
- addresses are automatically resolved by PowWow. The person to whom you
- wish to connect is alerted that a connection has been requested, provided
- their PowWow program is running.
-
- System Requirements
-
- PowWow requires Windows 3.1 or greater, and any Winsock program. A
- Web browser is not required to use the chat and file transfer functions.
- Group cruising requires Netscape version 1.1 or later.
-
- Note: This version of PowWow does not operate through firewalls.
-
- Installation
-
- Create a directory called PowWow anywhere on your hard drive. Copy the
- contents of the PowWow diskette into this directory. From the Windows File
- menu select NEW, then PROGRAM ITEM, then enter PowWow as the
- description, and POWWOW.EXE as the command line.
- Included Files:
- POWWOW.EXE
- POWWOW.HLP
- POWWOW.DOC
- LOON.WAV
- CTL3D.DLL
-
- Running PowWow
-
- To allow other people to connect to you, you must have PowWow running.
- After Winsock has been initialized, select the PowWow icon. A dialog box
- will appear requesting your local user I.D. and password. Enter your E-mail
- address as your user I.D. You may choose any password. Select OK. The
- PowWow main screen will appear. At the bottom of the screen the message
- "attempting to register with PowWow server" will appear. If your
- INTERNET connection is properly functioning, the message "Registration
- accepted by Server" will appear within a few seconds. PowWow is now
- active and ready for connection to or from another PowWow user. If you are
- not intending to immediately connect to someone, minimize the PowWow
- screen so that PowWow can remain active in case someone wishes to connect
- to you.
-
- Connecting
-
- To connect to another person using PowWow select the connect option and
- either enter the email address of the person you wish to contact or select
- one of the email addresses from the list in your PowWow book by dropping
- down the list box.
-
- If the email address you have entered allows for a direct connection (i.e. the
- person has a fixed, rather than dynamic IP address) you can select the direct
- connection option. This avoids the PowWow IP lookup process and saves 15
- or more seconds in the initial connect time. If you do not know whether the
- person you wish to contact has a fixed IP address, then do not select the
- direct option. The lookup function will still work.
-
- To add a newly entered connection to your PowWow book check the Add
- Connection option prior to selecting OK. This will also save your selection
- for the direct versus lookup setting for this connection.
-
- Send
-
- PowWow has a file transfer utility that allows you to send a file to the
- person you are chatting with. Once you are connected and chatting with
- someone then the Send option will be enabled. Use this to select a file
- to send. The person you are chatting with will then be notified that you
- wish to send them a file. They can then accept the file or refuse it.
- If accepted the file will be sent and a status window will show the
- progress of the file transfer. When the receiver has finished receiving
- the file the status windows will automatically shut down. The download
- file directory may be set by selecting the SETUP - FILES and DIRECTORIES
- option.
-
- You may continue chatting while the file transfer is active.
-
- Cruise
-
- PowWow has the ability to communicate with the Netscape Web Browser
- version 1.1 or later. This allows you to lead someone through the Internet
- with your browser. In order to lead the person you are chatting with,
- select the Cruise-Launch option. If your browser is not already running
- then it will be launched and a connection to it established. Once the
- connection to the browser completes successfully the person you are
- chatting with will be notified that you would like to lead them in browsing
- the Internet. They can then accept or refuse the cruise request. If
- accepted the browser will be launched, if need be, and a connection
- established to the browser. Once the connections are established on both
- sides, whenever the 'leader' opens a new URL then the 'follower' will be
- routed to the same location.
-
- If you stop cruising, the connections to the browser will be dropped but the
- browser will remain running.
-
- If you are using your Netscape Browser and have PowWow running, then any
- URL's of type powwow:email@address can be used to initiate a chat
- connection to the specified user just as if you had done a connect to that
- email address from within PowWow. This function may be used to allow Web
- site operators to communicate directly with a user who is viewing a given
- Web page.
-
- Local Info
-
- Use the local info setup to specify the email address that can be used to
- contact you for chatting. This should be in the form of name@host.address.
- When someone attempts to connect to you for chat, PowWow will verify that
- the name being requested matches the name in the PowWow lookup table.
-
- The password you select is saved with this email address on the PowWow
- lookup server, as is the method that can be used to connect to your email
- address. On subsequent registrations to the PowWow lookup server, the
- registration will fail to change the IP address for this email address if the
- correct password is not used.
-
- The save password option allows you to save the current password in the INI
- file so that you will not have to re-enter each time.
-
- The access method is also stored on the PowWow lookup server. If the email
- host.address part of your email address is the machine name for the
- hostmachine that will be running PowWow, then you can select direct
- connection and thus notify those people that do a lookup on your email
- address that subsequent connections can be done by direct connect rather than
- lookup.
-
- PowWow Book
-
- The PowWow book setup allows you to manage your list of connection
- addresses. You can highlight a connection and remove it or you can enter a
- new selection.
-
- In the list of connections a ,',L' at the end of the email address specifies
- that a lookup should be performed when establishing a connection to this
- email address, whereas a ',D' specifies that the email address is a direct
- link to the person so no lookup is necessary.
-
- Runtime
-
- The runtime setup allows you to set the defaults for request responses and
- window buffer sizes.
-
- Each request type (talk, file transfer, and cruise) can be set to either
- prompt you when a request is received or to automatically refuse the request.
-
- The buffer sizes can be set to your desired buffer size (providing your system
- has enough memory to accommodate your requested size buffer) in lines for
- the current width of the PowWow window.
-
- Files and Directories
-
- You can specify the download directory, sound file, and browser file to use in
- PowWow through the files and directories setup option.
-
- The download directory specifies which directory will be used for files that are
- downloaded through PowWow. The default is the directory from which
- PowWow is running.
-
- The sound file is the sound that will be played when a request is received
- within PowWow. If your system does not have support for wav files then a
- beep will be sounded instead.
-
- The browser file is the name and directory path where your browser is
- located. PowWow requires at least version 1.1b2 of the Netscape Web
- Browser in order to be able to utilize the cruise feature.
-
- Support
-
- Please email technical questions to support@tribal.com. Comments and
- suggestions should be sent to powwow@tribal.com.
-
- About Tribal Voice
-
- Tribal Voice is an organization of Native Americans, from various tribes,
- dedicated to the development of a Native American technological presence in
- the world of information science. The source of all of Tribal Voice output is
- Native American in concept, architecture and implementation. Tribal Voice is
- endowed by the Native American Trust and the McAfee Foundation.
-
-
- PowWow version 1.3b is the copyrighted property of Tribal Voice. It may be
- freely used and distributed, without charge, by anyone.
-
-
- Tribal Voice
- 627 West Midland Avenue, Suite 210
- Woodland Park, Colorado 80863-1100
- phone: 719 687 0480
- fax: 719 687 8176
-