Conference 7.286::atarist

    
    Hi Jaak,
    
    	I have a book ("The Whole Internet Users Guide and Catalogue",
    by Ed Krol) from which I understood that Uniform Rescource Locators
    (URL's) need to be constructed by the user, for example,
       ftp rescources:     file://internet-name/remote-path
    where 'internet-name' is the name of the server.
    Is this correct, and would a listing of Atari related ftp sites
    be of any use - I extracted a listing which appeared quite recently
    on usenet.
        I'd like to know more about WWW, I seem to recall reading somewhere
    recently that someone is working on an Atari port of 'Mosaic' (?)
    
    Brian :-)
    

    Hi!
    Just got a bunch of interesting ones from internet:
    
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Here goes

http://micros.hensa.ac.uk/
http://student.dhhalden.no/studenter/jonal/Atari/Atari.home.html
http://www.upi.edu:8080/~lanar/atari.html
http://godel.ph.utexas.edu/Members/timg/welcome.html
http://earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/mintos.html
http://web.city.ac.uk/~cb170/ksclpt.html
http://web.city.ac.uk/~cb170/CALAMUS/calamus.html

Hope this helps. 8)

Danny
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          Thanks, that looks interesting. As far as I understand it
    however, use of WWW requires a 'realtime' connection to Internet,
    running TCP/IP and with a TCP/IP Internet address. Although I believe
    this can be achieved by subscribing to a commercial service such as
    'Demon' here it the U.K. (apparantly when connected to this service,
    the user is set up as an Internet node with a specific TCP/IP address)
    it's all a bit complicated for me at present, and I'm not entirely
    sure whether a port of 'Mosaic' or 'Lynx' for the Atari will actually
    materialise.
    
    Brian :-)
    

    
    Well, TCP/IP is available for the Atari. It is in the KA9Q package
    with NOS, and the serial line Internet protocol SLIP seems to work
    ok. There are also some point programs which give you access to the
    newsgroups and mail as offline readers. For ftp and telnet you need
    a online Internet access which you will get from providers usually
    connected to universities. In Germany it costs about 50.- DM per month
    plus telephone costs. From the provider you'll get a domain name for
    your computer. I might upload the complete package of TCP/IP tools
    and point programs for the Internet if there is demand.
    
    As far as I understood some kind soul in the Atari users community is
    porting Mosaic. The sources for various platforms are available from
    NCSA via ftp, so this should not be the problem.
    
    For the URLs: it's not enough to construct a URL to a Internet node.
    There must be a valid HTML document on that node which provides the
    hyperlinks to other sources in the net. Otherwise you can't access 
    that node via WWW. The HTML document is part of the URL tho, so the URL
    is at least what you need to access the node via WWW.
    
    Cheers,
    Bernd