The network facilities provided by StartPanel have only been extensively tested in conjunction with the Miami TCP/IP stack (the best in the world!) Users of other TCP stacks (notably users of AmiTCP) may encounter problems with the TCP interface when used with the standard online/ hangup scripts. If you find you are experiencing problems, please contact me and I will try to work out what is going wrong.

Interfacing StartPanel to a TCP stack is fairly simple provided you follow these steps:

• Make sure you have obtained scripts (Arexx or shell) which allow you to take your TCP stack online or offline and open it's preferences window. Scripts for Miami are included in the StartPanel distribution.
• Start StartPanelPrefs and select the Network page.

Enter the script names into the relevant string gadgets, remember to add rexxc:rx before any arexx scripts. The screenshot on the left shows an example using the included Miami scripts, click on it for a large view. Save the StartPanel preferences

Now you can use the StartPanel net icon and net menu to conrol your TCP/IP stack, but you still need to get your stack to tell StartPanel when it has gone on or offline using StartPanel's arexx port. This can be done directly using the facilities provided by your stack - for example, you can put

rx "address STARTPANEL online"

in the "online" event in Miami's Events settings - or you can send the arexx command from any script. This is likely to vary considerably from setup to setup, if you are unsure how to send StartPanel the necessary arexx messages then contact me and I will try to help.