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- About This Book
- How to Use This Book
- Who Are You?
- Finding Your Way Around the Book
- Part I: Plugging In More Modem Stuff
- Part II: Another Helping of Software Stew
- Part III: More E-Mail, Files, and Other Riches
- Part IV: More about Those BBS Things
- Part V: Get Around, Round, Round, Round
- Part VI: The Complete Modemer's Shortcuts, Tips, and Tricks
- And . . . More Margin Icons
- About the Lack of Coupons . . .
- Where to Go from Here
- Chapter 1: A Typical Day in Cyberspace
- 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. News Wave
- 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Crosstown Traffic
- 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Modem at Work
- 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Job Hunt
- 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. A Good Book
- 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Kids' Stuff
- 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Going SOHO
- 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Personal Time
- 10 p.m. to 12 p.m. Nerding Around
- 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. Playtime
- 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. Talk, Talk
- Chapter 2: Troubleshooting
- Finding a COM Port (in a Storm)
- Dealing with Comm Drivers
- Installing a Beefier Serial Port
- Accommodating High-Speed Modems
- Chapter 3: More Troubleshooting
- Grappling with Noisy Phone Lines
- Getting Your Fax Modem to Receive a Fax
- Downloading without Troubles
- Running a DOS Comm Program under Windows
- Chapter 4: Upgrading Your Modem Software
- Discovering Software Support Forums
- Finding and Using Patch Files
- That was easy, wasn't it?
- Find the program's forum or conference
- Finding updates for Crosstalk for Windows
- Call the program's BBS
- Scan bulletins for clues
- Find the command that lists files
- Find any update files and mark them for downloading
- Download the files onto your computer
- Installing a Software Update
- Downloading the program updates
- Installing the new version
- Grabbing updates off the Web
- Chapter 5: Another Round of Friendly Modem Commands
- Why Bother With AT Commands?
- Discovering Command Strings
- AT commands
- S-Registers
- Escape code
- Command suffix
- Telling Your Modem Where To Go
- Untangling Your Software's Command Strings
- Init Strings, Auto-Answer, and Other Types of Command Strings
- Deciphering the Popular Commands
- Working with AT commands
- The basic, standard, no-frills AT command set
- Rolling Out the S-Registers
- Fun with S-Registers
- Looking for Result Codes (in All the Right Places)
- Resources
- Chapter 6: The Top Windows and DOS Communications Programs
- Rules of the Game
- Your basic, just-get-me online features
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Actually making use of a capture file
- Recording a script
- Hefting a Few Windows Comm Programs
- A peek into Procomm Plus for Windows 2.0
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back to previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- QmodemPro for Windows
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- HyperAccess
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- Dallying with DOS Comm Programs
- QmodemPro
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting the data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- Telix
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting the data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Procomm Plus
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- Chapter 7: The Top Macintosh Communications Programs
- White Knight
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- Microphone Pro
- Adding phone numbers to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- ZTerm
- Adding a phone number to a dialing directory
- Changing the terminal emulation
- Setting data parameters
- Capturing what you see online
- Scrolling back through previous screens
- Uploading and downloading files
- Recording a script
- Chapter 8: More Faxing (without Asking)
- Why Fax with Your Computer?
- Figuring Out Fax Modems
- Understanding fax standards
- Fax-specific standards your software cares about
- Other, probably avoidable, fax standards
- General fax standards
- Deciding How to Fax
- Faxing from any program
- Faxing from fax software
- Faxing within your comm software
- Sending a fax within Procomm Plus
- Faxing from Windows 95
- Sending a fax with Windows 95's Microsoft Fax
- Receiving Faxes
- Ready to receive
- Ogling OCR and Other Software Goodies
- Troubleshooting Failed Faxes
- Chapter 9: Sending E-Mail between Here and There
- Anatomy of an E-Mail Address
- The Domain Name System
- The binary of it all
- Sending E-Mail Hither and Yon
- America Online
- AT&T Mail
- CompuServe
- DELPHI
- GEnie
- Prodigy
- Tracking Down an E-Mail Address
- Chapter 10: The Joys of Offline Messaging
- Discovering Offline Message Readers
- How it works
- Why bother with offline message readers?
- Finding an offline message reader
- Setting up your offline message reader
- Forging a path
- Choosing a compression program
- Why bother using something besides the built-in packer?
- Setting other settings
- Catching Up with Your Friendly Neighborhood BBS
- Setting up the BBS's mail door
- Discovering a mail door
- Choosing some conferences
- Downloading a message packet
- Getting help with the BBS mail door
- Loading a QWK packet into the offline mail reader
- Working with the mail packet
- Adding an Offline Message Reader to Your Comm Program
- Faking an Offline Message Reader
- Readers for Online Services
- Chapter 11: Information Overload (and How to Get It)
- Finding a Quick Info-Nugget
- Tubed out, totally
- Getting choosy with TV1
- Slamming down even more TV resources
- Thumbing through an encyclopedia (without building up
- your thumbs)
- Encyclopedias on the Commercial Services
- Consulting Compton's on AOL
- Flipping through Hutchinson's on CompuServe
- Zooming in on Internet reference materials
- Yahoo!
- Britannica Online
- Internet search tools
- Performing a search
- Searching with Alta Vista
- Shopping online
- Hunting for a house (by mouse)
- Fashion zone
- Malling it over
- Searching and Researching in Depth
- Magazine Database Plus
- Dissertation Abstracts
- Uncover
- Keeping Up-to-Date in Your Field
- USENET newsgroups
- SIFTing NetNews
- Searching for newsgroups by topic
- Searching bulletin board conferences by topic
- Gathering Information while You Sleep
- News filtering services
- CompuServe's Executive News Service (ENS)
- NewsPage
- Mailing lists
- Electronic journals and e-zines
- Femme, Femme on the Net
- Chapter 12: The ABCs (and XYZs) of File Transfers
- Revisiting Some File Transfer Basics
- Uploading, downloading, and freeloading
- It's like copying a file
- Binary transfers versus ASCII transfers
- Why file transfer protocols exist
- Protocols Rule! (Finding Out Why)
- Why you need protocols
- Anatomy of a file transfer
- Rules of the Game
- Flow control
- Blocks and headers become packets
- Protocols do windows, too
- Streaming protocols
- Why you need to care about flow control
- Error detection
- Checksum checks a sum
- CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
- No error control
- And this stuff is important because...
- Other stuff governed by protocols
- Retries
- Batches o' files
- File characteristics
- Choosing the best protocol
- ZModem
- XModem and its variants
- YModem
- YModem-g
- CIS-B+
- Kermit
- ASCII
- FTP
- Understanding Uuencode (and Other Sneaky Ways to Tuck Files inside E-Mail)
- Chapter 13: Overcoming Decompression and Other Modem-Day Maladies
- Coming to Grips with Compression
- Archives of archives
- Other keen compression tricks
- What's in Those Files?
- Assembling Your Compression Arsenal
- Working with Compression
- Working with PKZIP/PKUNZIP
- Installing PKZIP/PKUNZIP
- Unzipping a file
- Zipping together an archive
- Making a self-extracting archive by using PKSFX
- Working with WinZip
- Installing WinZip
- Unzipping an archive with WinZip
- Creating a zip file or archive by using WinZip
- Making a self-extracting archive by using WinZip
- Working with StuffIt
- Installing StuffIt LITE
- Unstuffing a StuffIt archive
- Stuffing an archive or file
- Resources
- Chapter 14: Once It's Yours (Figuring Out File Names)
- What's in a (File) Name?
- Viewing a file before you download it
- Peering at Bubba
- Delving into Accidents of Nature
- Turn your 2400 bps modem into a 9600 bps modem!
- Looking Up File Names by What They Do
- In the beginning was the word
- Getting with the program
- Image is everything
- Compressed files
- Chapter 15: Finessing & Messing Around on the BBSs
- Types of BBSs You Encounter
- Introducing Yourself to the BBS
- Deciphering BBS Menus
- Main menu
- User settings
- Questionnaires
- Conferences and forums
- Chatting and writing messages to the sysop
- File menu
- Musing over the message menu
- Saying Good-Bye
- Chapter 16: So You Want to Run Your Own BBS?
- What Is a BBS?
- Types of BBS Programs
- Features to look for in a BBS program
- Multinode versus integrated BBS programs
- File support
- Messages
- First impressions: the BBS's look and feel
- Expansion capabilities
- The biggie BBS programs
- Amazing Uses for a BBS
- Hobbyist BBSs
- Business BBSs
- Entertainment BBSs
- Equipment Needed to Start a BBS
- Phone lines
- Modems
- Computers
- Operating systems
- Hard disk space
- CD-ROM drives
- Tape backups
- Software utilities
- Running and Maintaining a BBS
- Copyright infringement
- Hackers and flamers
- Getting callers
- Adding new files
- Maintaining your caller database
- Expanding your BBS
- A Summary of Different BBS Programs
- FirstClass
- MediaHost
- NovaServer, NovaTerm
- PCBoard
- Searchlight
- TBBS
- The Major BB
- Wildcat!
- Chapter 17: Networked BBSs
- The Magic of Networking
- How networked BBS works (the compressed version)
- How Alternative Networks Work
- How mail gets routed through a BBS network
- Types of mail a network can carry
- Finding a Networked BBS
- Using a Networked BBS
- Chapter 18: Finding More BBSs (Than You'll Ever Find Time to Call)
- How to Find a BBS Number
- BBS List Keepers
- Resources
- Chapter 19: Born to Be Dialed
- Calling Your Friend's Computer
- Stuff you need to set up in advance
- Actually dialing someplace
- Auto-Answer
- Quick'n'dirty manual answer
- Now what do we do?
- Stuff that doesn't have to match but at least one of you
- will probably have to tweak
- Sending a File to your Friend's Computer
- Sending a file
- Receiving a file
- Troubleshooting the Call
- Try something else
- Any dip switches in the house?
- Turnabout's fair play
- Locking modem and port speeds
- Other handy AT commands for calling your pals
- Answer after 1 ring
- Answer the phone
- Dial the phone
- Dialing a high-speed modem with a slower one (or just gaining more time for the modems to recognize each other)
- Echo off and echo on
- Set flow control type (confirm this command in your manual)
- Playing with Host Mode
- Using host mode to access your computer
- Security department
- Epilogue
- Chapter 20: A Whirl on the Internet
- A Quick Internet Review
- What's It All About?
- Does the Net matter?
- Sorting out the main types of Internet accounts
- Which connection's for me?
- Accessing the Internet through an ISP
- Accessing the Internet through an online service
- Reaching the Internet through BBSs
- Chapter 21: Fear of Dialing
- Flame-Proofing E-Mail with a Spray of Netiquette
- Flame-bait
- Emoticons and abbreviations
- Emoticons
- Abbreviations
- E-mail do's and doughnuts
- Avoiding Urban Legends
- Discovering Anonymous E-mail
- Guiding Smart Kids Safely Online
- Guidelines for parents
- A child's rules for online safety
- Resources
- USENET newsgroups
- Kids' online safety
- Chapter 22: More Fear of Dialing
- Preparing for Virus Protection
- Three viruses, a worm, a bomb, and a Trojan (horse, that is)
- Using virus protection software
- Disk defense
- Finding and using InVircible on a PC
- Finding and using Disinfectant on a Mac
- Just Say "No" -- or "Cancel"
- Discovering Encryption and Other Privacy Measures
- What's PGP?
- How's PGP better than older encryption tools?
- How can you be sure a key's genuine?
- Can't someone break the private key?
- Why so many PGPs?
- To learn more . . .
- Cobbling Firewalls
- When a firewall's out of your reach
- Intruder lexicon
- Resources
- Viruses
- USENET Newsgroups
- Chapter 23: Accumulating the Best Loved Comm Utilities
- DOS Utilities
- LIST
- DIRMATCH
- Magellan
- Fractint
- Windows Utilities
- Uninstaller
- Drag and View
- Macintosh Utilities
- DisKeeper
- Chapter 24: One for the Road
- Staying Wired Wherever You Go
- From the hotel room
- From the pay phone
- Cool Modem Tricks
- RJ-11 jack of all trades
- Acoustic couplers
- Modem of Babel: Online When You're Overseas
- (Not so) totally modular
- A traveler's garden of AT commands
- Ignoring a dial tone
- Using the phone to manually dial
- Giving Your Modem More Dialing Time
- A Traveler's Software Primer: Remote Access Software Resources
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