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Dnos Diary.4:46  22/8/1996

     Dinosaur or ....?

For the general interest of humanity
as a whole and to help me remember
what Im doing, Ive decided to do a Dnos Diary...

Yesterday I read my news and spotted
an article by Robert Mortimer 
(in demon.ip.support I think) all
about a new net client called Dnos.
(catchy little title :) )
Its got mail,news,ftp and (ta-da)
a web-browser. Some other bits and
pieces I think.

Its a development of KA9Q.

Its a beta release.

It is not supported by Demon (yet?)

I phone Demon support and was put
through to Sarah C. who is using it
herself and takes a personal interest
in its development.
"Its got a few bugs but generally
works ok"

Right.

I logon to Demon.

I go to the net>prompt and type...

ftp ftp.frost.org

Up pops an ftp site page which warns:
'pinch stuff from here and you
are nicked'

Sarah C. says this is normality 
itself so I proceed:

At login: type...

anonymous

(friendly places; ftp sites)

At password type...

william@billkath.demon.co.uk

(I wouldnt type this if I were
you! :)  ) - i.e your full email address.

         ***EMPTYNESS***

So type...

cd pub/dos

Which puts you in the pub/dos directory.

Type...

dir

for directory which reveals a single
file, I think, called: dnos.zip

I prefer the binary style so I type...

bin

Hash marks? Type...

hash

Heres where the action starts; type...

get dnos.zip

and several hundred of these start crawling across ###########
#################################
#################################
#################################

When its all over and it only takes a few minutes, type...

quit

and you are hurtled back to the
net> prompt. (that other awful place)

Youve got it! Get off the net and
see what you ve got!

Ahh ha ha ha ha! Mine all mine!

Stick it in a temporary called
Brian for all I care.

Stick unzip.exe in with it.

Then unzip the little rascal from
tip to tail!

111 files!

Only 1,222 084 bytes.

Small is beautiful!

Readme.txt - hummm - what does Rob have to say?..............

             ***

"Greetings,

"This is an alternative to Demon's KA9Q
It will work alongside ka9q or instead of.
Diff.txt shows the changes I made to my
autoexec.net to produce autoexec.nos.

"If you want to change directory structure
most of that is done via nos.cfg.

"It supports wildcard mail and news kill.
It can use ems and xms memory.

"The help files in help.zip go into
demopn\help and are fairly accurate
AFAIK. It also supports LZW compression.
At the moment the clients and servers
are as similair to the Demon set up as
possible, although at the moment I haven't
got the RSH command working, or even showing.

"I'm on holiday until the end of august so
don't expect immediate responses. Bug reports
to robm@demon.net please label them NOS
as I'll have truck loads of mail to look through
as it is.

"Fun new things it does:
Comm - send a string to your modem with out
       using a tip session.
sysopname - set the name for mailmsg and
            sysop commands.
tailmail - tail you mail.log file
mail - call your external editor
       defined in set mail=
       I think.
rewrite - rewrite file maintanence
skick - socket kick,
httpget - John Washington's httpclient code
          version 1. I'll put in his fixed
          code if it's around when I get back. I
          renamed it from http to avoid a clash
          with the http server available in the code
          I'm using.
cls/^L - clears the screen

exit - shows still open sessions and prompts for
       confirmation before quitting.


"Known bugs:
failexit in dialer doesn't exit due to exit prompt
you'll need to set nodial to " " as it doesn't seem
to treat nullchar for expanding $nodial etc very well.

f9 puts you into a trace session which may or may not
   do more. I'm not sure at the moment.

"I think that's it.
Let me know what happens, please.
I've had no problems with this at home, although
I'm using slip due to the fact my modem is not very happy.

Robm.

"PS in case you didn't gues nos086 is compiled for an 8086
nos486 for an 80486."

             ***

Thanks Rob.

Hmmmm.

086 or 486 - but mines a 386!

I think the 086 was the older
type of computer - before the
286? - Which makes mine a newer
type of computer - in the '486'
class - or what?

Theres *two* exe's to try - I think 
Ill go for the 486 - here goes...

...Oh No!

(to be continued)

...Bill
-- 
William Howard
william@billkath.demon.co.uk