!!!! Your Worldgroup's Sysop has not yet edited this document  !!!!
!!!! At several points in this document, you will need to ask  !!!!
!!!! your Sysop for the appropriate value or setting to enter. !!!!

!!!! Attention Sysop:  To customize this file for your users,  !!!!
!!!! search for all occurrences of four exclamation points.    !!!!



==============================================
Configuring Windows 3.1 to Access the Internet
==============================================

Right now, the way you presently connect to your Worldgroup server,
you have some access to the Internet.  Through E-mail, you can
exchange messages not just with fellow users on your local system,
but also with every other person on every other online service
who has access to Internet mail.  Through Forums, you can read
Usenet newsgroup messages from millions of users and reply to them.
Through IRC, you can chat live with people around the world.

There are several other Internet programs located on the Worldgroup
server which you can run remotely in terminal mode.  These include
an FTP client, a program which lets you download files from FTP
servers all over the Internet.  Imagine thousands of computers'
File Libraries made public and accessible to you.  That's FTP.

However, accessing the Internet through these terminal-mode modules
is a little like listening to a ball game on radio.  To really see
what's out there on the Internet, you need programs which will display
graphics.  These programs need to run on your PC, as manipulating tons
of graphics through a modem connection is too time-consuming.

The first program you'll need on your PC is a Winsock.  A Winsock is
similar to a terminal program such as Telix or Qmodem: it tells your
modem to dial up your Worldgroup server, and it can be set to
automatically log you on.  At that point, though, instead of taking
you to the Main Menu, a Winsock establishes an Internet connection
between your PC and the Worldgroup server.

Once the Winsock has established an Internet connection, other
Internet-ready programs running on your PC will be able to compose
requests addressed to any computer on the Internet, then pass those
requests to the Winsock.  The Winsock then transmits them through the
modem, through the telephone line, through your Worldgroup server,
and out to the appropriate Internet computer.  Responses come back
through the same path.

These other Internet-ready programs you'll install on your PC include
World-Wide Web browsers such as the Netscape Navigator, and Usenet
news readers such as FreeAgent.  Finally, an Internet-ready program
you're already familiar with is Worldgroup Manager.  Up to now, you've
probably used WGM as a dial-up modem program, but it can just as
easily be set to log on through an Internet connection.  Once you've
got a Winsock running an Internet connection through your Worldgroup
server, you can run WGM and log onto that Worldgroup server, or log
onto any of the hundreds of other Worldgroup servers which accept
Internet users.  On the same connection, you can even run Netscape,
Worldgroup Manager, and a news reader simultaneously.

You'll need to use your Worldgroup server's FTP client program to
get a Winsock program and a Web browser.  The writers of these
programs have license requirements that prevent your Worldgroup
system's management from making them available for download from
their File Libraries.  Instead, you're going to get them from the
authors' own FTP sites.

So, let's start downloading Internet software...

---------------------------
Downloading Trumpet Winsock
---------------------------

You'll need to get a Winsock program and install it on your PC in
order to establish an Internet connection to your Worldgroup server.

There are several brands of Winsock on the market, but the most
popular is Trumpet Winsock by Peter R. Tattam of Hobart, Tasmania.
Trumpet Winsock is shareware.  Mr. Tattam grants everyone permission
to use the program for a 30 day trial period, but you are expected
to register it with his company if you wish to continue using it.
The program is distributed with information on how to register.

To get a copy of Trumpet Winsock, log onto your Worldgroup server
and go into terminal mode.  From almost any terminal-mode prompt,
type

     /ftpa jazz.trumpet.com.au

This command runs the FTP client program on the Worldgroup server
and tells it to log on anonymously to Trumpet's FTP site.  Once
you've logged on and are presented with an ftp> prompt, type

     cd /winsock

to change directories to the /winsock directory (notice that IS a
forward/slash, not a back\slash... FTP is UNIX-inspired software,
and only DOS and Windows use backslashes).  Then type

     binary

to tell the FTP program that you plan to download binary (that is,
non-text) files.  If you neglect to type this line, you'll get a
file which is not usable.  Finally, type

     get twsk21f.zip

to get the file twsk21f.zip from Trumpet's FTP site.  If you are
told there is no such file, type

     dir

A UNIX-style directory will appear after a few seconds, hopefully
listing at least one file with a name beginning twsk.  The
characters following twsk are the version number.  Download that
file by typing

     get twsk{whatever the current version is}.zip

This may take a while, as it's slightly more than 300K in size.
Once you've gotten the file, exit the FTP client program by typing

     bye

You'll return to your Worldgroup server's terminal-mode prompt.
The file has been downloaded from Trumpet's FTP site in Tasmania to
your Worldgroup server's hard disk.  Now you need to download it from
the server to your own hard disk.  Do NOT leave terminal mode.  If
you do, the Worldgroup server will erase the file from its records.
On some Worldgroup systems, the current menu will include a choice
to tag and/or download files gotten via FTP.  If you see such a
choice, choose it.  Otherwise, type

     /go top

and from the top page, the terminal-mode main system menu, choose
File Libraries.  One of the choices there should be T, which lets
you manage tagged files.  Select that choice.  The next set of
choices will include D, to download all tagged files.  Select D.
It now asks what file transfer protocol you wish to use, and lists
possibly half a dozen.  Z for ZMODEM is always the best choice when
your PC is running Worldgroup Manager with the terminal-mode window
open.  ZMODEM is almost always the best choice if you are using some
terminal program such as Telix, Qmodem, Crosstalk, etc.  Once you've
selected a file transfer protocol, the Worldgroup server begins
sending the twsk*.zip file to your PC.

If your terminal program is set to automatically accept incoming
ZMODEM downloads, you won't have to do another thing. If not, you'll
need to tell your software to begin accepting the incoming file.
If you're using Worldgroup Manager's terminal-mode window, pull down
the File menu and select Download, choose a suitable destination on
your hard disk, and click OK.  If you're using some other type of
terminal software, set it to accept a ZMODEM download.

Once the file has arrived on your hard disk, your terminal software
and the Worldgroup server return to normal terminal mode.  Now you
have a copy of the utility program which will establish an Internet
connection between your PC and your Worldgroup server.  To help
automate it so that you can connect at the double-click of an icon,
Galacticomm and your Sysop have created a login command script
file which is in one of the libraries on your Worldgroup server.

From the File Libraries menu, choose F to find files, then W to
search for filenames by wildcard.  For a filename, type

     login.cmd

Choose A to search across all libraries.  A list of all matching
files will appear.  Use the up/down keys to highlight LOGIN.CMD,
then press CTRL+D to download it.  Select Z for ZMODEM (or another,
if you wish) and download the file.

If you already have a copy of PKUNZIP.EXE on your PC, you can skip
this next step.  If not, from the File Libraries menu, choose F to
find files, then W to search for filenames by wildcard.  For a
filename, type

     pk*.exe

Choose A to search across all libraries.  A list of all matching
files will appear.  At least one should be identified as a self-
extracting archive containing PKzip, PKunzip, and related files.
Use the up/down keys to highlight this PK*.EXE file, then press
CTRL+D to download it.  Select Z for ZMODEM (or another as you
require) and download the file.

We could go on to configure the Winsock now but, since we're logged
on, let's run the terminal-mode FTP client again and get the
application you are most likely to want: a World-Wide Web browser.

------------------------------
Downloading Netscape Navigator
------------------------------

Windows 3.1 does not contain a Web browser.  At the moment,
Netscape's Navigator program is the most commonly used Web browser.
It, like Trumpet Winsock, is not freeware and Netscape expects you
to register your copy with them once you choose to continue using it.

This second foray into FTP will be very much like the one that got
you a copy of Trumpet Winsock.  To get a copy of Netscape Navigator,
from almost any terminal-mode prompt in Worldgroup, type

     /ftpa ftp.netscape.com

This time, you're logging onto Netscape's FTP site, not Trumpet's.
Once you're logged on, type

     cd /netscape/windows

to change directories to the appropriate one.  Don't forget to type

     binary

or the copy you get won't be useable.  To get the file, type

     get n16e122.exe

Again, if that command evokes a "file not found" response, use dir
and possibly cd to explore their FTP site for the appropriate file.
The n16 part means Netscape Navigator 16-bit (as opposed to 32-bit,
which you do not want).  The remainder of the filename is the
current version.  Netscape often makes beta versions of Navigator
available for download.  Beta means they're still working the bugs
out of it, but if you want to be on the bleeding edge of technology,
you can try to use it.  The officially shipping version is typically
much more stable.  Last time we looked, the latest Beta version was
available via:

     cd /2.0beta/windows
     binary
     get n16e2b4a.exe

The Beta version changes very often.  Type "dir" to see what's
available.

In any event, expect the get to take a while: the file is nearly
two megs in size.  Once you've found and gotten it, type bye to the
FTP program and you'll be returned to your Worldgroup server's
terminal mode.  Go into terminal-mode File Libraries as before, type
T to manage tagged files, D to download tagged files, and Z for
ZMODEM (or whatever protocol you chose to download Winsock).

Now we've got enough to keep us busy for a while.  Log off from the
Worldgroup server.

--------------------------
Installing Trumpet Winsock
--------------------------

Make an appropriate directory to hold Trumpet Winsock (C:\WINSOCK,
for example).  PKunzip the TWSK*.ZIP file into that directory.  One
of the resulting files will be TCPMAN.EXE.

Copy the file LOGIN.CMD, into the Winsock directory.  The copy command
may complain that there's a LOGIN.CMD file already in the directory.
Overwrite it with the one you downloaded separately from File Libraries.
This file has been customized, first by Galacticomm, then by your Sysop,
to automatically log onto your Worldgroup server.

Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and include the Trumpet Winsock directory
in the PATH= statement.  For example, if C:\WINSOCK is where you just
put the Trumpet Winsock files, add

     ;C:\WINSOCK

to the end of the line beginning PATH=   Once you've saved the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file, reset your PC so the change will take effect.
Now any Internet application will be able to find the file
WINSOCK.DLL simply by searching the PATH.

Be sure that your modem is set to disable XON/XOFF flow control, and
that it is set to enable RTS/CTS (hardware handshaking) flow control.
If the modem is an external, be sure it's turned on.

Make a Program Manager icon which runs TCPMAN.EXE, then run it.

The .EXE file will first look for the file TRUMPWSK.INI.  Not finding
it, the .EXE file will conclude that this is a new installation.  It
will create a TRUMPWSK.INI file, encrypt today's date within it, and
ask you to agree to its license terms.  When the setup screen appears,
type in the following settings:

IP address                 0.0.0.0
Netmask                    (ignore, for LANs only)
Name server                !!!! Ask your Sysop for the IP address of your Worldgroup server's DNS Name Server !!!!
Domain suffix              !!!! Ask your Sysop for the domain name of your Worldgroup server !!!!
Packet vector              (ignore, for LANs only)
Demand load timeout(secs)  5
Default gateway            (ignore, for LANs only)
Time server                (ignore, for LANs only)
MTU                        1500   !!!! Ask your Sysop for the value of CNF option SCPMTU !!!!
TCP RWIN                   8192
TCP MSS                    966    (should be 40 less than MTU)
TCP RTO MAX                60

[ ] Internal SLIP
[X] Internal PPP

SLIP port                  The COM port your modem is using:
                           1 for COM1, 2 for COM2, etc.
Baud rate                  The speed your PC should talk to your modem:
                           If your modem is...    set Baud Rate to...
                            9600 or 14400                19200
                           28800 or higher               38400
                           ISDN terminal adapter        115200

[X] Hardware handshaking
[X] Van Jacobson CSLIP compression

Online status detection
[ ] None
[X] DCD (RLSD) check
[ ] DSR check

Then click OK to save these changes.  You'll be told that the
changes won't take effect until you exit and restart Trumpet.
Instead of exiting, pull down the Dialler (Tasmanian spelling?)
menu and select Options.  Make the following settings:

[ ] No automatic login.
[ ] Automatic login on start up only.
[X] Automatic login and logout on demand.

SLIP inactivity timeout (minutes)      2

[ ] Automatic redial when disconnected

[X] Use standard SLIP settings for parity & word size
[ ] Use Control Panel settings for parity & word size

Then click OK to save these changes.  Now, whenever you run
Trumpet Winsock, the LOGIN.CMD script file will be automatically
executed.  LOGIN.CMD will dial the modem and give your User-ID
and password to your Worldgroup server.  Every time you tell
Trumpet to close, it will first execute BYE.CMD and then shut down.
BYE.CMD tells your modem to hang up and reset itself.

The first time LOGIN.CMD runs, it will begin asking questions.  The
first thing it wants to know is the telephone number it should have
your modem dial in order to reach your Worldgroup server.

The next thing it wants to know is your User-ID.  Type in the same
User-ID you normally give to the Worldgroup server when logging on.
Don't follow it with /PPP -P or the like: the script file appends
those instructions automatically.

Finally, it wants to know your password.  Type in the same password
you normally give to the Worldgroup server when verifying your
User-ID.

The LOGIN.CMD script records your answers in TRUMPWSK.INI so it won't
need to ask these questions when you run Trumpet Winsock in future.

If you ever need to change these values later (phone number, User-ID,
and password), run the SETUP.CMD script by pulling down Trumpet's
Dialler menu and selecting 1 setup.cmd.

The Login script dials the phone number you gave it moments ago.
Once the remote computer answers, the Login script scans the text
received from that computer.  When it sees the request to enter a
User-ID, it transmits your User-ID followed typically by /PPP -P
(telling the Worldgroup server to start a Point-to-Point Protocol
session using Proxy addressing).

If you were using Dynamic addressing, the phrase would be /PPP -D
If you were using the older SLIP protocol the phrase would be
/SLIP -D or /SLIP -P.  If it just sends /PPP, the Worldgroup server
typically assumes -P (proxy addressing).

Either way, the Login script then sends your password.

The Worldgroup server uses this login information to establish an
Internet connection between it and the Trumpet Winsock program
running on your computer.  The last text you'll see on the Winsock
screen will be "PPP ENABLED" followed by "Script completed".

Minimize the Winsock screen to get it out of your way.  Your computer
now has a live connection to the Internet through your Worldgroup
server.

Note: if you are paying for Internet access, your Worldgroup server
may be charging you by the minute from the time you establish an
Internet connection (PPP ENABLED) to the time you hang up your modem
and disconnect.  Alternatively, you may be charged a monthly rate
and not be charged by the minute.  Even so, if you're online but not
doing anything, consider hanging up to let others access the server.

When you tell Trumpet Winsock to close (double-click the control menu,
or pull down the File menu and select Exit), it runs BYE.CMD, a script
which tells your modem to hang up.  If for some reason this fails to
happen, the modem will not have hung up, the phone call will still be
intact, and your Worldgroup server will continue to believe you are
online.  If it is set up to charge by the minute, it will continue to
charge your account.  You'll probably hear the modem's speaker click
as it hangs up.  To force an uncooperative modem to hang up, either
power it off or unplug its telephone cord.  Either of these actions
will kill the connection.  The Worldgroup server will realize within
seconds that the session has ended.  Any per-minute charges will
stop at that point.

To run Trumpet Winsock whenever you run Windows 3.1, go to Program
Manager and put the Trumpet Winsock icon in the Startup group.

Unless you need to be online continuously, though, you'll probably
be happier NOT setting Winsock to automatically load at startup.
Since the Winsock directory is in AUTOEXEC.BAT's PATH statement,
Internet applications which need a Winsock will be able to find
it.  When you run a Web browser, a news reader, or Worldgroup
Manager in Telnet (Internet) mode, the application will look for
a Winsock.  If Trumpet isn't loaded, it'll load it automatically.
This is called loading on demand, as opposed to manual loading.

When you close an Internet application, Winsock will remain loaded
for a set amount of time (File menu, Setup, Demand load timeout).
If you run another Internet application within that time, the
connection will not be interrupted.  If that time passes without
another Internet application being run, Winsock will automatically
run BYE.CMD (hanging up the modem) and close itself.

-----------------------------
Installing Netscape Navigator
-----------------------------

The second big file you downloaded begins with N16 and contains the
files to install Netscape Navigator.  Go to a temporary directory
(C:\TEMP, perhaps) and run the N16*.EXE file (it's a self-extracting
zip file).  One of the resulting files will be SETUP.EXE.

Go to Program Manager, pull down its File menu, select Run, then run
the SETUP.EXE program.

The Netscape Setup program will ask where you wish to install
Netscape.  It generally suggests C:\NETSCAPE.  Once you've answered
that, it asks which Program Manager icon group should contain the
Netscape icons.  It suggests a new group named Netscape.  Once you've
chosen a group, the Setup program begins installing files in the
directory you chose for Netscape.  When it's done, it offers to
display its README file.  Please do read that file.

When the Netscape Setup program finishes, the Netscape Navigator
icon will be placed in the Program Manager group you selected.

If you wish, you can manually load Trumpet Winsock before running
Netscape, or you can run Netscape and let Netscape automatically
run Trumpet Winsock on demand.

Pull down Netscape's Options menu and select Preferences.  Then
set preferences on Mail and News.  Go to the Your Email field and
type in your Internet e-mail address.  This is your Worldgroup
User-ID with periods instead of spaces, followed by an @ (at) sign
and the Internet domain name of your Worldgroup server.  For
example, User-ID John Hunt on Galacticomm's Demo System has an
Internet e-mail address of john.hunt@gcomm.com

You probably won't use Netscape to send and receive e-mail, but
when you log onto FTP sites, they'll expect you to provide an
e-mail address as your password.  Click OK to save the address.

To browse the Web, you go to Netscape's Location field and type in
URLs (uniform resource locators).  For example, type this:

     ftp://gcomm.com

You are now using Netscape as an FTP client, logging onto the FTP
site at gcomm.com.  After a brief welcoming message, you'll see a
picture of a folder followed by library/

Move your mouse cursor over library/ and click once.  You'll soon
get a list of subdirectories under the root library directory.
The FTP site is sending the same data that it would send to the
terminal-mode client, only the graphical client you're now running
can display that data in a more legible way.  Plus, you don't have
to remember that to get the same data you need to type ls -l or
similarly arcane commands.  Instead, just point and click.

Once you work your way down through folders to reach files (the
graphic for a file is a piece of paper), a single mouse click
gets the file.  If it's a text file, the text is displayed on screen.
If it's a graphic (.GIF or .JPG most often), the picture is
displayed on screen.  If it's something else (.ZIP, .EXE, etc.),
Netscape asks what you want to do with it.  You'll usually want to
save it to disk.  This is the same as the terminal-mode get command.

Because the FTP client is a program running on your PC, the gotten
file is downloaded directly from the FTP site's hard disk to your
PC's hard disk.  There's no second ZMODEM download of a tagged file.
You didn't have to remember to type binary, either.

Now for the real fun!  Go to Netscape's Location field and type

     http://www.gcomm.com/friends/bbses.html

This URL tells Netscape to contact the World-wide Web server at
gcomm.com, look in its /friends directory, and retrieve the Web page
bbses.html.  This Web page lists hundreds of Internet-accessible
Worldgroup Web sites.  Just click your mouse once over any of the
WWW entries to fetch the index Web page from that site.

A more generic way to locate pages of interest is to click on the
Net Search button.  This requests a Web form from Netscape's home
base which lets you type in a keyword to search for.  Type in
Worldgroup, for example, and you'll be sent a Web page with the
first ten occurrences of Worldgroup the search engine can find, plus
a hot spot to request another ten occurrences, typically up to 100.

--------------------------------------------------
Configuring Worldgroup Manager to run over Winsock
--------------------------------------------------

Up to now, you've been running WGM as a modem dial-up program.
When used this way, WGM can contact any Worldgroup server which has
modems you're permitted to contact.  Unfortunately, many of these
systems are at the other end of a long distance telephone call.
Now you have the ability to get at many of them through a local call.

Winsock establishes an Internet connection between your PC and your
Worldgroup server, most likely via a local telephone call.  Once
connected, though, you can reach through your local Worldgroup server
and log onto any of thousands of other computers which make their
resources available to Internet users.  A rapidly growing number of
these are Worldgroup systems like yours.

Run Worldgroup Manager but don't run the icon which dials up your
Worldgroup server.  Single-click that icon instead, highlighting it.
Then press F8 to copy it.

Edit the new icon's properties by pressing ALT+ENTER.  You might want
to rephrase the Name field to end "... via Telnet".  Telnet is a type
of Internet program which lets you log onto remote computers.  It's
a lot like a modem program, only it uses Internet domain names
instead of telephone numbers to contact remote computers.  Worldgroup
Manager can act as a Telnet program as easily as it can a modem
program.  In the "How to connect" box, select Telnet.  Notice that
the Phone# field goes away and a Host field replaces it.  Type here
the Internet domain name of your Worldgroup server, then click OK.

The new icon is now configured to use Telnet over an Internet
connection to log onto your Worldgroup server.  As with Netscape, you
can manually load Trumpet Winsock before double-clicking this new
WGM icon.  Alternatively, you can run the WGM icon without first
loading Trumpet and let WGM automatically load the Winsock on demand.
The F8 copy command brought over your User-ID and password, so you
can log on automatically.

Realize that you are logging onto your Worldgroup server twice: once
through Winsock, then again through WGM via Telnet.  You are using
two Worldgroup server channels this way.  It's possible your system
may charge double-time for this.  If so, run WGM via modem without
running Winsock when you want to explore your Worldgroup server,
and run Winsock when you want to explore the Internet.

To use WGM to telnet to other Worldgroup servers out on the Internet,
run Winsock to establish an Internet connection with your local
Worldgroup server.  Make a new WGM icon, set it to Telnet, and
give its "Host:" field the domain name of any Internet-accessible
Worldgroup server.  Back in the Netscape section of this document,
you saw Galacticomm's master list of publicly accessible systems.
Many of them have Telnet addresses you can reach using WGM.  For
example, you can reach Galacticomm's Demo System by typing

     gcomm.com

in the "Host:" field.

Another thing to watch for is Worldgroup Manager's ON DECK status.
WGM was written to let you do a lot of work while not online... tasks
such as writing e-mail and reading previously downloaded forums.
Winsock programs were written on the assumption that user-side client
programs would always need to be in contact with remote servers in
order to do anything useful.  As a result, whenever you start up
Worldgroup Manager and double-click on an icon which is set to use
Telnet, Winsock automatically loads and begins dialing out to your
Worldgroup server.  This happens if you've set the WGM icon to
immediately go online, but it also happens if you've set the WGM icon
to merely go on deck, presumably to go online later.  The WGM icon
won't establish a Telnet logon to the Worldgroup server in its Name
field, but the Winsock WILL establish a telephone connection with the
computer which supplies your Internet access (your local Worldgroup).

If you want to go on deck in WGM without dialing up your local
Worldgroup server, use a WGM icon which is set to connect via Modem,
not Telnet.  Then, when you later want to go on deck, click the
Connection Status Window's Connect button and WGM will do the dialing,
not Winsock.  Alternatively, you could close the on-deck modem icon,
double-click the icon set to Telnet, and Winsock will do the dialing.
This last approach is handy when you want to operate on deck with a
Worldgroup system somewhere on the far side of the Internet.

--------------
What is a URL?
--------------

The things you type in the Location field of a Web browser are URLs:
Uniform Resource Locators.  In one, consistent, uniform way, they
specify the location of most kinds of Internet resources (computers,
files on those computers, etc.).

The first part of a URL specifies the kind of resource being sought:

http://     Web server
ftp://      FTP server (file library site)
telnet://   online service in terminal mode
mailto://   write an e-mail message

and so forth.  The next part of a URL is the address of the server
you want to contact, either its numeric IP address or its textual
domain name.  For telnet, that's enough information to make contact
and ask to log on.  For FTP and Web servers, though, you can type
a slash followed by a path and filename.  This tells the Web browser
to get that Web page or FTP file from that server.

Web pages also have hot spots embedded in their text, colored words
or outlined graphics which, when clicked, automatically get other
Web pages, download files, telnet to online services, or open the
built-in e-mail program and let you write a letter to someone.
While you'll generally want to receive your mail through Worldgroup
Manager's E-mail program where you can file messages, this utility
is handy for quick notes you may be inspired to write while browsing
the Web.  When a Web page asks for comments, you can comment.


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There's a universe out there... have fun exploring it!
