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4.1 KiB
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226 lines
4.1 KiB
HTML
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><TITLE
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>Now What?</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.60"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="SLIP/PPP Emulator mini-HOWTO"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="Preparing your Linux Machine"
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HREF="preparing-your-machine.html"><LINK
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="Miscellaneous"
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HREF="miscellaneous.html"></HEAD
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><BODY
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CLASS="SECT1"
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BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
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TEXT="#000000"
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LINK="#0000FF"
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><TR
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><TH
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COLSPAN="3"
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ALIGN="center"
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>SLIP/PPP Emulator mini-HOWTO</TH
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WIDTH="10%"
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ALIGN="left"
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VALIGN="bottom"
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><A
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HREF="preparing-your-machine.html"
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>Prev</A
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WIDTH="80%"
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WIDTH="10%"
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>Next</A
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WIDTH="100%"></DIV
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><H1
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><A
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NAME="NOW-WHAT"
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>5. Now What?</A
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><P
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> Hey, if all went well, you are now connected to the Net! Try a
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'telnet remotehostname' (remember that abbreviation in your hosts file?).
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You should get the remotes telnet login prompt. Go on, try it! You can now
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telnet/FTP/etc. anywhere on the Net from your local machine. How? Your
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machine is using the remote as a nameserver to resolve addresses
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(<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>resolv.conf</TT
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>). Experiment, find out what works and
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what doesn't.
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</P
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><P
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> You will not be able to use services that are not provided
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already on your remote host! For example, if your server doesn't allow
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telnets, chances are you can't do it either. Why? Because the emulator is
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only re-directing what is already available.
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</P
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CLASS="SECT2"
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><H2
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CLASS="SECT2"
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><A
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NAME="MAIL"
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>5.1. Mail</A
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></H2
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><P
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> The obvious text based solution is Pine, you can get it from
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<A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu"
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TARGET="_top"
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>The University of Washington </A
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>.
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</P
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><P
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> My pick for 'Best Mail Reader, X Based' has to go to XFmail. This
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has now gotten out of beta, and rocks. Easy to install; requires no local
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mail system be installed (but will work with local spools) because it has
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POP built in - no more popclient/fetchpop! Easy to use; totally
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customizable
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from the GUI. Also supports MIME. Get it from
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<A
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HREF="http://burka.netvision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>The XFmail Homesite</A
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>.
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</P
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></DIV
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><DIV
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CLASS="SECT2"
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><H2
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CLASS="SECT2"
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><A
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NAME="NEWS"
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>5.2. News</A
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></H2
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><P
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> The text based News Reader
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<A
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HREF="ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slrn"
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TARGET="_top"
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>SLRN</A
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> is fairly simple to
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install and use. It is a true NNTP newsreader, which means
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<EM
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>no local news transport is required</EM
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> to make it work
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(you don't have install
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Cnews or INN). It does require that you have access to an NNTPserver,
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naturally, but most ISPs have this. It is text based, but has
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color and mouse support, and runs fine in an rxvt window.
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</P
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><P
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> The X based News Reader
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<A
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HREF="http://www.matematik.su.se/~kjj/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>KNews</A
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> is
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almost perfect. As with SLRN above, no local transport is required, but
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an NNTP server is. It's at least worth a look.
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</P
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></DIV
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><DIV
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CLASS="SECT2"
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><H2
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CLASS="SECT2"
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><A
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NAME="MOSAIC-NETSCAPE"
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>5.3. Mosaic/Netscape</A
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></H2
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><P
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> Obviously, you will need to have X running for this to work, but
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it's a simple matter of FTPing the binary, unpacking it,
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and installing it.
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</P
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></DIV
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></DIV
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CLASS="NAVFOOTER"
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><HR
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ALIGN="LEFT"
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WIDTH="100%"><TABLE
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BORDER="0"
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><TR
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><TD
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="left"
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VALIGN="top"
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><A
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HREF="preparing-your-machine.html"
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>Prev</A
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></TD
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><TD
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WIDTH="34%"
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ALIGN="center"
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VALIGN="top"
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><A
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HREF="index.html"
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>Home</A
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></TD
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><TD
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="right"
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VALIGN="top"
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><A
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HREF="miscellaneous.html"
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>Next</A
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></TR
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="left"
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VALIGN="top"
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>Preparing your Linux Machine</TD
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><TD
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WIDTH="34%"
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ALIGN="center"
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VALIGN="top"
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> </TD
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><TD
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WIDTH="33%"
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ALIGN="right"
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VALIGN="top"
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>Miscellaneous</TD
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></BODY
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