How to Get and Install the INTERNET TOUR for Macintosh The NSF Network Service Center (NNSC), a project of the Laboratories business unit of the Systems and Technologies Division, has developed a Tour of the Internet in HyperCard (TM) format for novice network users. The stack has basic information including history, sample email, ftp, and telnet sessions, and a glossary. The Tour is intended to be a fun and easy way to learn about the Internet. We have included a 'Local Info' section as part of the Tour. This section is a place where an organization can add information relevant to its own group of users, for example a listing of resources at that site, or other, specialized information. This README document contains, first, instructions for installing the Internet Tour, and then (for those who need them), nitty-gritty details about FTP. * * * * * * The Internet Tour is a HyperCard (TM) 2 stack for Macintosh computers. In order to run this stack, you need to have HyperCard 2. HyperCard 2 requires Macintosh system 6.0.5 or higher. In order for all the text to display properly, you should have the following screen fonts in your system Palatino 18, 14, 12, and 10 Helvetica 14 and 12 Courier 12 The Palatino fonts are in the 'HyperCard Fonts' suitcase that comes with HyperCard; the Helvetica and Courier fonts are included with Macintosh system software. The Internet Tour files have been compressed using StuffIt 1.5.1, and converted to binhex format. In order to use the files, you need to reverse the process. To do this you need the Macintosh application StuffIt 1.5.1. The files take up about 760k when converted to their original format. (You'll need at least twice that much space to do the conversion.) Your have two methods of transferring the Internet Tour over the Internet from the NNSC to your host computer: 1) If you have access to a computer that is on the Internet and runs the 'ftp' facility, you can 'ftp' Internet-Tour.sit.hqx using a text option; then transfer it to your Mac. 2) If you have access to a computer that can exchange email with the Internet, you can send a message to the Info-Server on sh.cs.net. You will receive the file split into messages small enough to pass through most gateways to the Internet. Use an editor to reassemble the original file and transfer it to your Mac. Both methods are described below, in detail. Use StuffIt's 'Decode binhex file' option (on the Other menu). This creates a new file in addition to the original one: Internet-Tour.sit. Next choose 'Open archive' from StuffIt's File menu. Open Internet-Tour.sit, and click the 'Extract' button at the bottom. This will create three files: Internet Tour, Internet Local Info, and Internet Tour doc. Good Luck! * * * * * * NITTY-GRITTY INFORMATION ABOUT FTP AND THE INFO-SERVER (If you already know all this, just skip the rest of this message.) HOW TO USE THE FTP COMMAND You can FTP the internet-tour files from nnsc.nsf.net with a standard anonymous FTP connection: ftp nnsc.nsf.net (If you are using the Unix operating system, the command 'ftp' must be typed in lowercase letters. On other operating systems, it may be either uppercase or lowercase.) You will see a 'banner' and be prompted for your login: Connected to nnsc.nsf.net. 220 nnsc.nsf.net FTP server (Version 5.59 Mon May 14 13:48:21 EDT 1990) ready. Name (nnsc.nsf.net:yourname): You should type 'anonymous', and then use the password 'guest'. The password will not be displayed on your terminal. Name (nnsc.nsf.net:yourname): anonymous Password (nnsc.nsf.net:anonymous): 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> To see the FTP commands that are available to you, type ? at the 'ftp>' prompt. NOTE: Different operating systems have FTP commands with different banners and commands. Your FTP implementation may not look exactly like the one shown here, but it should have the same general functionality. 1) Type the 'status' command to check your file type. ftp> status Connected to nnsc.nsf.net. Mode: stream; Type: ascii; Form: non-print; Structure: file Verbose: on; Bell: off; Prompting: on; Globbing: on Hash mark printing: off; Use of PORT cmds: on 2) Set your file type to ASCII. The ASCII setting is the same as TEXT. This is the default. Give the command ftp> type ascii 200 type set to A. 3) Change directory to the 'internet-tour' directory: ftp> cd internet-tour 250 CWD command successful. 4) To get a listing of the files in the internet-tour directory, give the 'dir' command (usually equivalent to the 'ls' command on Unix systems). ftp> dir * 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. - -rw-r--r-- 2 mooers guest 6808 Apr 20 15:32 Internet-Tour-README - -rw-r--r-- 2 mooers guest 653681 Apr 9 09:06 Internet-Tour.sit.hqx 226 Transfer complete. ... NOTE: You must type the file names exactly as shown. Unix filenames are case- sensitive (i.e., it makes a difference whether the letters are lowercase or capitals). 5) To ftp a file, give the command ftp> get Internet-Tour.sit.hqx 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for Internet-Tour.sit.hqx (653681 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. ... HOW TO ORDER THE INTERNET TOUR FROM THE CSNET INFO-SERVER 1) Send a message to 'INFO-SERVER@sh.cs.net'. You do not need a subject field. The text of your message must be in a special format (this is very important), but it does not matter whether the letters are uppercase or lowercase. REQUEST: nsfnet topic: INTERNET-TOUR TOPIC: HELP request: end 'Request: nsfnet' tells the Info-Server to look for the topics in the NSFNET section of the Info-Server. 'Topic: internet-tour' orders BOTH of the files about the tour, 'Internet-Tour-readme' and 'Internet-Tour.sit.hqx'. 'Topic: help' orders a file with information about other NSFNET files in the CSNET Info-Server. 2) If you want to order ONLY the file 'Internet-Tour.sit.hqx', put the following request in the text of your message: request: NSFNET topic: internet-tour.sit.hqx REQUEST: end File: Internet-Tour-readme; 4/20/91