Guide to Internet
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Tutorial objective
Internet Connection
Prerequisites
Internet the easy way
Document locator for smart documents
Significance of the local file locator
Document locator syntax
Using mail
Connecting to a mail server
Principle of operation
Using mail interactively
Using the mail panel
Sending a viewer text as mail
The mail commands
Encoding data to ASCII
Sending text documents and files by mail
Receiving text documents and files by mail
Automatically forwarding your mail
Accessing Usenet newsgroups
Connecting to a news server
Setting the NNTP host name - NetTools.Set
Inspecting the NNTP host name - NetTools.Get
The newsgroups maintained by your NNTP host
How many groups are there? - News.ShowAllGroups
Any new newsgroups? - News.ShowNewGroups
Maintaining you personal newsgroup list
Subscribing - News.SubGroup
Unsubscribing - News.UnsubGroup
Storing the personal info - News.StoreInitTexts
Inspecting the personal info - News.SubscribedGroups
Selecting a newsgroup
Selecting and reading articles
Posting an article - News.PostArticle
Setting your e-mail address - NetTools.Set
Inspecting your e-mail address - NetTools.Get
Structure of an article
Replying to an article - News.FollowupArticle
Frequently asked question list - FAQ
File Transfer Protocol - FTP
Log in to your local computer
Anonymous FTP
Using FTP interactively
Finding your way around an FTP server
Controlling file transfer
Terminating FTP
Controlling FTP with commands - FTPTool
Connecting to a server - FTPTool.Open
Disconnecting from a server - FTPTool.Close
FTPTool.ChangeDir
FTPTool.CurDir
FTPTool.Dir
FTPTool.DeleteFiles
FTPTool.MakeDir
FTPTool.RmDir
FTPTool.GetFiles
FTPTool.GetTexts
FTPTool.PutFiles
FTPTool.PutTexts
FTPTool.CompactDir
Table of correspondance
A practical example of use
Getting the most recent version of Oberon
File types encountered on Oberon FTP servers
Using Telnet
Using Telnet interactively
The Telnet panel
Using the panel
Customizing the iconizer
A few useful Unix commands
Fingering the world
World-Wide Web - WWW
Navigating the WWW
The HTTPLinks panel
Using the hot list
The HTTPDocs Panel
Using the Gopher
Connecting to a Gopher server
Moving around in the Gopherspace
Using bookmarks
Using Veronica to search the Gopherspace
Using Jughead to search the Gopherspace
Requesting Internet services by mail
Accessing Internet services via Telnet
Using Telnet to access the WWW
Using Telnet to access Gopher
What to do if you want to Internet from another computer
For receiving mail
For sending mail
For news
For WWW, Gopher, Veronica
A few interesting Oberon document locators
What's next?