Attended the meeting on Thursday night, and quite an interesting discussion with about 14 attendees. Emil opened the meeting noting that we just talk about the Internet and good sites or whatever comes up. Some of the topics that were discussed were; PowWow There is a new version out, see http://www.tribal.com for the details. Up to 70 conferees, white board, text to voice and other capabilities, it is worth giving a try. mIRC seems to still be the most popular chatting medium, and it was noted that TIP is likely to get its own IRC facility, for TIP only use, sooner than later, read what you want into that ! W95 Registry There has been some discussion in tip.general about getting more than one service provider into Netscape or whatever. It all hinges on the Registry, and this is not as friendly as the INI files in Win 3.x Anyone knowing a good source of technical information concerning the W95 Registry system, please post here. Advanced Searching With a mirror of Alta Vista now available in Australia, http://www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au/ and apparently faster than the States side base one, advanced searching was suggested for a faster find. There is a small "how to" available, but in short: "john doe" will return all the pages with john doe and John Doe "John Doe" will return only pages with John Doe john+doe will return all pages that have john in them as well as doe, this number will be greater than a "john doe" search. Try it. WS_FTP Three people reported that their Ws_Ftp didn't go outside TIP. Looking at the Options, there doesn't to be anything obvious to change to make it go outside TIP. However no problems using ftp in Netscape. A bit of a mystery, so if anyone has any clues, please post an answer. The Resume function, (an FTP specification, but not implemented in Ws_Ftp) was considered invaluable, allowing a file transfer over several Internet sessions. The registered version of CUTEFTP has this and those that use it speak very highly of it. Miscellanea The expected melt down of the Internet during the US elections did not occur. AOL had a decision made in its favour to block out spammers. 4.30 pm on Prime (channel 7) has a CNet presentation on the internet. CNet is a US based provider, and their TV shows are real slick apparently. Publisher 97 has a sophisticated Web Page capability, and Nick Thomson will be reviewing WebGraphics, possibly in December's Sixteen Bits. You can't run a 32 bit netscape on a 16 bit trumpet. If you are looking for the flags of the world, you can try some of the latest Corel packages, straight flags or fluttering flags. There is also a file, wrldflag.zip, 83937 bytes around which will do the trick. If you haven't seen Nhan's help pages yet, have a look at; http://www.pcug.org.au/~ntran/help/helpmain.html and excellent production. And few other things as well, but by and large, that was it, very interesting and if you are ever free the first Thursday night of the month (not January) and feel like of a bit of internet chatting, feel free to come along. For more details, have a look at; Internet SIG page: http://www.pcug.org.au/~ejoseph/intsig.htm Owen
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