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- Congratulations on your purchase of Telnet version 1.00! We hope that you
- will enjoy the minutes of use guaranteed before it's obsoleted by the next
- beta. Let's quickly review the contract:
-
- 1) This is freeware! Meaning: I don't want money. I would much rather
- produce a program that people want to use, so... please send comments,
- criticisms, or suggestions to: jbaumgar@coil.com. Only in this way can Telnet
- get better. So support the Atari community!
-
- 2) This is completely `freely distributable'(tm). Meaning: Send it
- everywhere, but don't charge for the program itself. You can, of course,
- charge a nominal fee for the disk it is on, but then again, why would you want
- to pay for this when it is available on http://www.coil.com/~jbaumgar/ai.html
- for free.
-
- 3) The betas found on http://www.coil.com/~jbaumgar/ai.html are NOT
- freely distributable and have their own contract in which part (1) is
- mandatory. You don't have to ask me to download them, but please don't spread
- the betas around. You will be able to tell the difference by the small bits of
- text listed after the version number. In the AI page, betas are listed as
- '0.35beta', whereas releases are listed as '1.00release.'
-
- Okay, that was fun. Now about Telnet. Telnet is based on a program
- of the same name originally developed by the Regents of the University of
- California at Berkley as a program used to get their clients and servers
- talking to one another in a platform-independent virtual terminal. How is
- Telnet useful to you? Well, if you have some sort of login account somewhere
- on this vast planet of ours, you can login to it. Also, some libraries and
- other services have areas that are accessible only after a login (through
- Telnet). And if you act now, you can access the multitude of MUDs and MUSHes
- scattered about the net, again with Telnet.
-
- Telnet is easy to use if you know where you're going. If you know the
- full hostname (until STiK's resolver allows for machines within your domain)
- and port of the server you wish to telnet to (default port is 23), you can
- quite easily connect. Either with ALT-O or the menu bar, select "Open..."
- Then, type the full hostname or IP address of the site in the host TEDINFO, and
- if you don't want to use port 23, edit the port by pressing the down arrow and
- backspacing over the default. Simple, eh?
-
- If you wish to open a new connection, you can just select open again (it
- automatically closes). If you want to run in idle for a time, you can close
- the connection with ALT-C or "Close" from the menu. If you don't like the size
- of the font, the shape of the cursor, or the granularity of the scrolling,
- there are options to toggle in the "Options" menu:
-
- * Small (8 point), Medium (9 point), and Large (10 point) fonts are just
- that. They will set the terminal font to the point size you select, resize and
- then redraw the window.
-
- * Block Cursor toggles between a thick character-sized cursor, and a thin
- line while Blinking Cursor toggles the blinking feature of the cursor.
-
- * Blitter Intensive mode means that vro_cpyfm is used more heavily than
- otherwise. It does not have anything to do with Blitter other than the fact
- that vro_cpyfm's are performed by the Blitter on machines with the chip, and is
- emulated on machines without.
-
- The windows work in compliance with the GEM standard except for the arrows
- and the dark grey regions in the scrollbars. And that's it! If you want more
- features, then e-mail me about them. Again, my address is:
-
- jbaumgar@coil.com
-
- And you can find new betas and releases at:
-
- http://www.coil.com/~jbaumgar/ai.html
-
- Thanks for your patronage!
-
- James E. Baumgardner II
-