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CyberSTrider Files

Returning from his holidays, Cybes brings you the latest Atari news from around the world...

Those of you who had problems accessing the Atari Computing web site at http://www.ataricomputing.com/ using ASH's PPP-Connect will be pleased to hear the problems have now been resolved. CyberSTrider's commercial arm, who provide the Atari Computing domain services, has moved to bigger and better internet servers, using slightly different technology. If you're interested why there were problems refer to the boxout for an explanation.

A recent addition to the easy to remember internet name brigade is Titan Designs which can now be found at:

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http://www.titan-bss.co.uk/
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I'm sure you'll agree it's a whole lot easier to remember than the previous long-winded Compuserve URL! Titan also has new email contact addresses which you'll find in the news pages.

Until recently Atari users have only had a couple of options to extract MIME files. Newsie includes a TTP utility called MUNPACK which handles these and although it can be used as a stand alone utility with other applications it's not user friendly. There's also ESS-Code, which also offers the ability to create MIME mail attachments.

Recently I stumbled across Marceau, a shareware MIME utility which can decode MIME, UUE and quoted printable files from a single GEM application and it automatically uses the AVSERVER if available.

** MARCEAU.GIF here

Marceau is currently only available in French but is simple to use. Registrations costs FF50 (around œ5) so if you'd like an English version the more of us that register the more likely this is to happen. Download available from:

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http://services.worldnet.net/vcf-com/atari.shtml
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Get Real

Atari users are now able to listen to Real Audio files on their STs - well the few of us that run MiNT can. RealAudio Player, by Petr Stehlik is not actually a player but it can take 14.4K RA (Real Audio) files and convert them to RAW sound data which can be re-directed to an AUDIO device under MiNT which plays the music. Lets hope Petr starts working on a version for "normal" STs soon. You can grab a copy of this TTP converter from:

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http://www.stehlik.cyberstrider.org/
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If you're into MiNT, pay a visit to Katherine Ellis's web pages at:

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http://www.primenet.com/~kellis/
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where lots of tasty looking MiNT stuff hangs out. Katherine programs various utilities for TOS and MiNT and her latest creation is POPGEM - a cute little program which lets you download email via the POP3 protocol. You will need a working STiK/STiNG installation, a multitasking OS (preferably MiNT) and an AV server. Registration costs $8 US (around œ5) for which you get a copy of SMTPGEM which enables you to send emails.

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CyberSTrider STeps up

CyberSTrider have just expanded their services by moving into the "couture" Internet arena. Having invested heavily, in both time and money they are now able to offer custom solutions to your internet needs, ranging from simple Domain Name registration through to full maintenance of your web site.
Commenting on this expansion Denesh from CyberSTrider said: "Having believed in the usefulness of the Internet for the past ten years, we will be putting that amount of experience into providing our clients with one of the best services around. Our products are accessible to the business user and even the home hobbyist."
Domain Registration starts from just œ100 (including registration fees) through to full web site design and maintenance starting from œ250. For more details contact CyberSTrider at:

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info@cyberstrider.net
http://www.cyberstrider.net/
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PPP-Connect PPProblems

The current English PPP-Connect release has problems accessing some web sites. These problems occur when trying to connect to web servers using the http 1.1 protocol, instead of the earlier http 1.0 protocol.

Every computer on the internet has a unique numerical IP address. We don't generally use these because they are mapped to easier to remember names. For example, www.ataricomputing.com has the IP address 216.22.159.21 and your browser takes you to the numerical IP address automagically.

As interest in the World Wide Web exploded it soon became apparent there wouldn't be enough IP addresses to go around so work started on http 1.1 which doesn't rely on fixed IP addresses to the same extent and works roughly as follows:

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* One "main" domain name has an IP address assigned to it. All other addresses are aliased from this - effectively they have the same IP address.
* All the HTML files for the domains are in their own directories and the web server is configured to know which files are kept where.
* When a browser looks for a http 1.1 domain, the data packets arrive at the web server, which in turn examines the data packets to see which domain it wants to go to. Once it has worked out what domain the data packets are seeking it looks at its database and passes them on to the correct directory.
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Anyone experiencing problems with the current English PPP-Connect can switch to STiK or STiNG and browse happily using the latest CAB.OVL.
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