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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 13:49:46 MDT
From: Rob Slade <roberts@decus.ca>
Subject: Book Review: "A DOS User's Guide to the Internet" by Gardner
BKDOSINT.RVW 940308
Prentice Hall
113 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
(515) 284-6751 FAX (515) 284-2607
phyllis@prenhall.com
70621.2737@CompuServe.COM Alan Apt
Beth Mullen-Hespe beth_hespe@prenhall.com
Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
35 King Street North
Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9
(519) 884-2251
inquiry@mks.com 73260.1043@compuserve.com
Fax: (519) 884-8861
"A DOS User's Guide to the Internet", Gardner, 1994, 0-13-106873-3,
This title is almost completely misleading. This book is not for DOS
users, except that you must be running DOS to run the MKS UUCP for DOS
programs for which this book is a manual. This book is also not about
the Internet, as such. Both the specifics and the concepts refer to
UUCP rather than the Internet. The text of the book does point out
that there are differences, but the examples given relate to UUCP.
That said, for those who are interested in making their first move to
a direct Internet connection, this could be an excellent choice. UUCP
was designed to be quite comfortable with dialup connections, and this
book, and associated programs, help to automate a number of the
connection functions while freeing the user from much of the technical
detail that TCP/IP requires. Mail and news are basically the same and
file transfer can be explored later when a dedicated connection is
available or desirable.
Given the author's residence in Canada, the US-centrism of the
Internet Provider/Service supplier list is all the more disappointing.
In truth, any Internet connected UNIX site should do you. (Perhaps
even a fellow DOS user running MKS UUCP.) There could also be a bit
more detail on how to configure the remote site, although someone at
the remote system should be able to help you.
This is not an Internet book: it is a niche market, plug and manual
for MKS software. However, given the current interest in the Internet
and the limited supply of "plug and play" connectivity solutions, this
is worth serious consideration.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKDOSINT.RVW 940303. Distribution
permitted in TELECOM Digest and associated news groups/mailing lists.
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