DEMON INTERNET SERVICES
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		Your First Connection to the Internet
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You should have heard your modem dial and connect to our service.  Amongst 
the messages you see on the screen should be:

	Dialing on ax1
	Modem commands
	Demon Internet Welcome message
	Login messages
	Dial ax1 complete

You may get messages to the front screen informing you that news has 
arrived.  To stop these from interrupting your screen type:

	nntp verbose off

In fact, you should type this in before getting the messages, so I suggest 
you do so now.  To test your connection type:

	ping gate.demon.co.uk

and the response should be something like:  158.152.1.65: rtt 168.  You can 
actually type in your next command now even though the net> prompt doesn't 
show.  Pressing return by itself will cause the net> prompt to reappear. The 
successful ping means that your internet node can send packets to 
gate.demon.co.uk (which is 158.152.1.65). rtt is the round-trip time in 
milliseconds.  To see if you can connect further than this type:

	ping ftp.uu.net

and the response should be: 192.48.96.9: rtt 366.  To see the route you are 
taking to a site type:

	hop check ftp.uu.net

and you will see the connections made between your computer and the 
destination host with each part reporting back to you the time taken.  Gate 
is the server you are connected to at Demon, netblazer is a router in the 
Demon office and Falls-Church1.VA.ALTER.NET is in Virginia, USA.  At the end 
you will get the message "traceroute done: normal (Unreachable Port)".  
Press return to go back to the main screen.

ka9q allows commands to be abbreviated.  If the letters typed in are 
ambiguous it selects the first match it finds.  Thus ping can be shortened 
to pi but not to p as this would be param.  You can type ? for a list of 
commands.  Now type

	socket

and you will get a list of sockets that are listening.  Under the column 
headed Remote socket you will see the IP address of any remote connection 
that has been made.  For example you might see 158.152.1.69:119 which is the 
demon news server.  Under Owner you will see an address and NNTP client.  
You should close off any of these connection cleanly before ending you ka9q 
session.  NNTP and SMTP clients are started automatically by your software 
and will close off when they have finished their work.  To try your first 
file transfer type:

	ftp ftp.demon.co.uk

and you will connect to our file server.  At the user name: prompt type:

	ftp     (or anonymous if you can't spell ftp!)

at the password prompt type your email address eg. 
yourname@yourpc.demon.co.uk.  You will then be at the ftp> prompt.  Type 
help for a list of commands.  Type dir for a directory.  We will now get a 
file called Welcome.txt from /pub/doc which is a file telling you about how 
to move around the internet.  Type:

cd /pub/doc
dir
hash
get Welcome.txt

note that you are connecting to a unix machine and thus file names are case 
sensitive.  In addition they do not perform to dos file naming conventions - 
they can be very long and do not have formalised positioning of suffixes.  
The other important feature is that directory paths are separated by forward 
slashes / and not back slashes \.  The hash command turns hash marking on - 
for every 1024 bytes received a hash mark is printed to the screen.  You 
will get a message telling you how long the transfer took.

Before we close this connection, press the F10 key.  You will revert to the 
front screen.  Type:

	session

and a list of active sessions will be brought to the screen.  Type:

	session 1 (or se 1)
	quit
	<return>

to revert to the ftp screen, quit the session and return to the main screen

Check your sessions and if there is no NNTP client active, type:

	exit

and you will return to DOS.  Note that this is not guaranteed to hang up the 
line - certain modem/computer combinations prevent this from happening - 
please read the support.faq file supplied.  Our gateway will attempt to idle 
your line out after 2 minutes of inactivity but it is always your 
responsibility to hang up the line.

ka9q works in a multi-user fashion, so you are able to receive news and send 
mail whilst ftp'ing to another site.  You can in fact ftp to several sites 
at once - to switch between them simply press F10 to return to the main 
screen, type session to get a list of sessions and then session n to 
switch to the required session where n is the session number.

In your nos directory you will now have a file called welcome.txt.  Please
read this as many of your questions will probably be answered by it.


Grahame Davies
Demon Internet Services
Email: grahame@demon.co.uk