
KA9Q-NOS for Atari ST Beta Version 0.10
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The following notes are a quick guide to setting up the NOS version of KA9Q.
This version of the program is in an early stage of development for the 
Atari ST and more complete instructions will be created at a latter date.

Release 0.10 has been rebuilt for the ST from the DIS supported KA9Q for the
IBM PC.  This means that the internet code is as up to date as I can find, and
is a major advance on the amiga code level used for the 0.0x betas.  I am 
still working on the port to the DIS code.  There are various additions to the 
previous ST programs which are not present in this Version.  These will be 
added shortly.

The NOS programs requires the following directories and files:-

        startup.nos                     
        domain.txt
        ftpusers
        dial.txt
        alias

        finger\

        spool\

        spool\mail\

        spool\mqueue\
        spool\mqueue\sequence.seq

        spool\news\nntp.dat

By default all paths are relative to the root directory of the drive from
which NOS was started.  Thsi can be changed by starting nos with the -d 
flag.  For example:-

        nos -dg:\nos

would casue nos to look for g:\nos\startup.txt and g:\nos\spool etc.

You can also set the root directory by setting the NOS_ROOT enviroment
 variable.  For example:-

        NOS_ROOT=g:\nos

This method requires a shell or utility program which allows you to setup the 
enviroment. 

NNTP - netnews

There has been a lot of changes in the NNTP code.  The news groups to fetch
can now be specified in the nntp.dat file. This takes priority over the
startup file.  If batch mode is turned on all the news will be written into 
a single file for latter processing.

The netnews newsgroups are specified in the startup.nos file, as is the NNTP 
profile.  The demon news server is news.demon.co.uk

You may want to update the nntp.dat file in spool\news to change the date and 
time values to something recent, to prevent a large flood of news on your first
connection.


The dialer

This version of ka9q has a dialer facility.  This uses the dial.txt file which
must ben placed in the NOS root directory.  You can setup the connection to 
demon with the command

		dial sl0 dial.txt

There are currently a few problems with the dialer.  I know that the first 
character of some of the login messages is missing and that cwait can give
problems, however I am currently using the supplied dial.txt file for all
my connections.  It is much easier than using a seperate terminal program 
to do the login


   David Nash

   dnash@chaos.demon.co.uk
	dnash@cix.compulink.co.uk


