Welcome aboard! If you have any problems or need help, if we are online at the same time you are, you can reach us via the "talk" option in the menu online. I'm also available on ICQ (#5069384), and of course, you can always Email us too. ===================================================================== Telnet Account Setup User Name - yourname Password - secret Account URL: - http://videocam.net.au/~yourname/ (for personal use only) Email Address - yourname@videocam.net.au For Shell Access: No special requirements other than to set your term program's terminal emulation to ANSI or VT100. Telnet Server - vcsweb.com Mail Server: - mail.vcsweb.com FTP Server: - ftp.vcsweb.com Email and Web Account Settings: Disk Space Available: - 1 megabyte Accessing your directories via FTP: At some point you may need to access your home directory using FTP to download files or to upload web pages. Be sure to set the program you use for FTP so it doesn't automatically log you in anonymously. Instead, use your login name and password as if you were logging into the account as usual. FTP Server: ftp.vcsweb.com User Name: As above Password: As above Home Directory: /home/yourname or ~/ Web Directory: /home/yourname/public_html or ~/public_html Additional Information: Your password is case sensitive. It is in lower case as is your user name. The disk space that's available is for both Web and Email. Please note that our dial-in and telnet members are not to use their web space for commercial purposes. We have a standard terms of service, which can be found at: http://vcsweb.com/tos.html. If desired, a copy can be sent to you in Email. We have a strict NO SPAM policy. Any member using their account to send bulk unsolicited Email will have their membership/account terminated immediately with no refunds given. We hope you enjoy using our service. Don't hesitate to ask for assistance - we'll do our best to help you. Gaelyne and Rod Gasson, VideoCam Services ===================================================================== What is Telnet and What Do I Do with it? Telnet is like dialing a BBS, ISP or online service without dialing the phone. You use it while connected to your regular Internet provider. Telnet is the oldest Internet related utility, and still around because it's very useful. When the first long distance network between two big computer systems was set up, the first thing that was needed was a way to test if it worked. To test it, a program was written that allowed the tester to log in to the remote (far away) system as a regular user. The program and computer that allowed this to happen at the time was only 12k. Think about it - even Vic20's had more memory. :-) To start telnet, from the UNIX prompt on your ISP, type: telnet vcsweb.com Or for those with CompuServe, Delphi, Genie or a menu based system, find the menu prompt for telnet and type "vcsweb.com" when prompted for the host to telnet to. The telnet program will try to reach the remote system, and the user is prompted for a login name and password, just as you would be if you had dialed our dial-in line. You then see the same Unix prompt as our dial-in users see (shown below). Some very supportive Commodore people use PPP accounts and other computer types to access the Internet instead of using Unix Shell accounts and can also use telnet. All that's required is installing a program called a "telnet client" (if you look on TuCows, you'll find a list of several different programs). A telnet client looks and acts pretty much like a terminal program, except it doesn't dial out - it uses your already existing Internet connection to connect to another computer on the net. Once a telnet session is connected, you'll see a little welcome to Videocam Services and will have a prompt that looks like: login: At that prompt, you type your user name (m_hogan) and press return. The system then will ask for your password. After you type it in and press return, you'll see: ******************************************************************** Welcome To VideoCam Services! .--. Helpful Commands: |o_o | help - Online help pages |:_/ | browse - Browse your HOME directory // \ \ news - Use Lynx to read newsgroups (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ Enjoy your visit with us. \___)=(___/ ******************************************************************** Thu Jun 24 14:01:56 [yourname@vcsweb vcsweb] $ Where the dollar sign is, is your prompt. From the prompt, you can type "menu" "help", "pine", "lynx", "tin" or any number of Unix commands. The ASCII picture (above) is of a penguin, as he's official mascot. At this point, you get pretty much everything that I've written about in "The Internet for Commodore C64/128 Users" book. And there aren't many ISP's that can clain to have their own user manual. :-) Along with support for Commodore users from Rod and myself, the utilities and features include: * UNIX Shell Utilities There are hundreds of little useful utilites . I know a few people have been interested in are djpeg (converts JPGs to GIF format) and gif2ps (converts GIFs to Postscript format). * Email Pine and Elm are two programs we have available. Your Email address would be: yourname@vcsweb.com What is the reason for and purpose of an EMail address? Some people like to have more than one Email account. For instance, one fellow who telnets to use our system loves sending Email "from Australia" even though he lives in Pennsylvania. Another person uses it to receive mail lists as his regular Internet provider doesn't allow anyone to be subscribed to mailing lists. Some members use their Email address and others don't. It's a matter of preference. * Text Editors Pico, joe, emacs, and vi are avaliable for use. Pico is an easy to use text editor, joe is similar to some CP/M editors, and emacs and vi are very powerful editors. * Newsgroups We have tin available for reading the newsgroups. Lynx and pine can be used for this as well. We have the following Commodore or local groups available: comp.sys.cbm comp.binaries.cbm local.tifcu.users local.general fido.cbm fido.cbm-128 fido.cbm-geos fido.classic_computer Other newsgroups are online, and additional ones are available on request. * FTP Both FTP and NCFTP are installed for retrieving files from other providers, FTP can also be used to transfer files from your home directory on vcsweb.com to your regular dial-in Internet provider (or home computer for those telnetting using non Commodore computers). * World Wide Web We have a current version of Lynx and will update as major updates become available. Using Lynx, you can visit Web and FTP sites, download files, send Email messages while browsing the Web, etc. Our Lynx was specially installed with full colour, and will allow you to access secure web sites for ordering items on the web and such. * Internet Relay Chat IRC is available for use, and is already set up with several working network servers listed. * Telnet Yes, you really can telnet from one system and telnet to another again. * Personal Work Area 1 Megabyte of disk space is available. This can be used for a non-commercial web site if you like. The URL would be http://videocam.net.au/~yourname/ As with a lot of services, everyone who uses their telnet membership seems to have different reasons for using it, so we try to cater to as many different types of uses as possible. =====================================================================