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- Configuring your machine
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- Double click on Acornet to start the application. Select the configure
- option from the front-end. Click and then fill in each of the three
- options presented; 'provider' is for details about connecting to your
- service provider, 'computer' is for details about the computer you are
- using and 'modem' is for your modem type and speed.
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- Going on-line and off-line
- ==========================
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- Clicking select on the blue LED icon on the icon bar will connect you
- to Demon. The LED will then turn red. Clicking on the red LED will
- disconnect you from Demon. Alternatively, you can use the 'Connect' and
- 'Disconnect' options on the front-end to FreeNet.
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- If you are in TCPIP mode you can still use the LED to connect and
- disconnect. There is also a menu option over the LED to connect and
- disconnect.
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- Switching between FreeNet and TCPIP
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- The menu option over the LED icon on the icon bar will always give you
- the option to switch between stacks. This can be done on-line or off-line.
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- Using ArcWeb and FreeTerm
- =========================
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- You must be on-line and connected to Demon before attempting to run either
- of these programs. They require the TCP/IP stack to be loaded to connect
- to the outside world. If you only wish to view html files local to your
- hard drive you may run ArcWeb without being connected, but if you wish to
- then go on-line to Demon, you must quit ArcWeb and then re-load when you
- are connected.
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- Using Ping, Finger and Ftp
- ==========================
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- Very easy. Just fill in the boxes and away you go. With ping and finger
- you close the task-window after you have finished reading the contents.
- With ftp, once you have launched the ftp command from the front-end
- you continue to interact with that session via the task-window tht
- opens.
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- Extra Help
- ==========
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- More help texts are available if you click on the SLIPdial icon on the
- icon bar (the telephone in front of the box), and then click on the menu
- icon in the status window that appears (the icon is to the right of the
- word 'Select...'). This then gives a list of some help texts which you can
- view by clicking on.
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- Incidentally, the status window shows how much time you have been on-line
- for. You can configure this window to pop up automatically upon start up
- by pressing the menu button over the SLIPdial icon and selecting choices
- from the menu. Click on the 'Open status' option then the 'Save' option.
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- Trouble Shooting
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- Problem : Double-clicking on !Acornet does not seem to do anything
- Solution: Go inside the !Acornet directory and double-click on 'CleanUp'
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- Problem: 'ager:Sprites24' when trying to run ArcWeb
- Solution: You are running an old version of the Drawfile. Download the new
- version from ftp.acorn.co.uk
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- Problem : Error % in module title
- Solution: Reboot the computer, SLIPdriver module died
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- Problem : Get file '.!Run' not found when trying to change to TCPIP
- Solution: You haven't 'seen' the !TCPIP directory
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- Problems/Comments: Phillip Temple (horza@gu228uq.demon.co.uk)
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