SCOUG OS/2 For You - June 1995
OS/2 Warp Suggestions
(IBM provides a variety of information about OS/2 to software resellers in
order to foster a more informed retail environment. Here are selections
from "Tech Notes" by IBMer Chris Novak in the Feb '95 OS/2 Warp Promotion
News.)
If you're a user of BonusPak's HyperACCESS Lite, there is an update to this program
which fixes some problems related to modems not initializing properly. Use the
Hilgraeve BBS icon included in HyperACCESS Lite's phone book.
IBM's Internet WebExplorer is now available. If it didn't ship with your
copy of BonusPak, you can download it by using the Internet Connection's
"Retrieve Software Updates" option, or you can get it via FTP-PM from:
ftp://ftp.ibm.net/pub/webexplorer
You have different Internet Connection programs to help you do different things.
For example, Gopher finds information and pictures, FTP transfers files to and from
your computer, and the WebExplorer gives you multimedia (audio/video) hypertext
(fancy term for built-in footnotes and references) access to all kinds of
organizations on the Web.
Did you know that the WebExplorer can also access Gopher information and
transfer files from FTP sites? It's true! The 'secret' is in defining
the Web URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), and they define the type of
Internet service at the address which follows.
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file:///d:\tcpip\tmp\webmap.htm
(Web map from your last session) means a local file on your PC. (Yes, this one
has 3 slashes, not 2.)
So why would you want to use "file:///"? Well, WebExplorer allows you to
save World-Wide-Web documents to your disk. It even stores the last Web map you
used in \tcpip\tmp\webmap.htm. You can specify this path (add your drive letter
where TCP/IP is installed) in WebExplorer's URL field, or drag and drop any *.HTM
file onto the WebExplorer icon. To make it even easier, modify the WebExplorer's
SETTINGS - ASSOCIATION to add *.HTM. Now you can double-click directly on any HTM
file on your system.
Buyers of OS/2 Warp are entitled to 60 days free support, but that support is not
toll-free. If you call IBM's 1-800-992-4777 support number and navigate through
the menus, you'll be told the 'Getting Started' support number is 1-407-994-5544.
Save yourself some time, and call it directly if you need assistance.
As you explore the World-Wide-Web, if you find an interesting "page,"
don't forget to mouse-click the 'thumbs-up' button on the WebExplorer's button bar.
This will 'bookmark' where you are, so you can come back another time. (Gopher has
a similar facility.)
Bookmarking will take you there in a future session, just use the
WebExplorer's "Quicklist" pulldown menu to display all of your bookmarks.
You can also use the Web Map icon, which maintains your entire Quicklist
as well as all the places you've visited in the current session.
Want to save time when using the WebExplorer? By default, the IBM "home
page" is loaded each time the WebExplorer starts. You can change this to any
other home page or none at all.
To disable opening a home page on startup, use WebExplorer's "Configure"
pulldown, select "Servers" and make sure that the "Load on Startup" box is
not checked. Now the WebExplorer will come up blank, and you can use your
Quicklist pulldown to select which of your bookmarks you wish to access
first.
Alternatively, you could leave "Load on Startup" checked and change the
"Home Document" to be whatever you would like.
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