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You're not going to like this, but setting up STIK is not one of the easiest
tasks. It is not incredibly hard, but will take a fair amount of time.
The very first thing to do is, if you own a Falcon, to install some kind of
patch program which fixes a rather nasty bug in Bconmap(). I know that HSMOD
does it, and FPATCH (which is included in this package) will also do it. If
you don't own a Falcon then you're lucky (for once).
Next you'll need to copy STIK.ACC to the main directory of the drive you
boot up from (a disk for floppy users, and usually C: for hard drive users).
Then you need to copy the _directory_, not the files in the directory, to
the same place. If you want you can have this directory in a different
place. Details on how to do this are in STIK\README.
Once that's done you can do the actual setup. First of all you need to run
LISTPORT.TOS from the STIK\EXE directory. This will tell you which modem
port you need to use. Write this down on a piece of paper, you'll need. Then
edit the file DEFAULT.CFG in the STIK_CFG directory which you copied, not
the one you copied from. (For floppy users this would be
A:\STIK_CFG\DEFAULT.CFG) Go through the file while reading all the comments,
which are clear enough so you should be able to get the idea. If you end up
having problems connecting, make 100% sure the following variables are set
up right, because they are necessary:
SERIALPORT, CDVALID and NAMESERVER
Once you've done this you need to edit the STIK_CFG\DIAL.SCR file, which is
in the same place as the file you just edited. The easiest way of doing this
is first do exactly what you want to do in a normal communications program,
and then save, or preferably print the capture buffer of what happened. Then
you have all the data you need handy. Edit the DIAL.SCR file as appropriate,
and save it.
Now, on a partition of your hard disk with plenty of free space (or on the
floppy disk, if you don't have a hard disk) create a directory named CACHE.
Start up HTML.PRG and select the menu item "Paths" under "Options". Click on
the path under "Cache Path" and go to the CACHE directory you just created
when the file selector pops up. Then click OK. Save the options, and quit
the program. (This is a really important step, make sure you get it right,
otherwise you won't be able to view any webpages.)
The next step is to reboot, so STIK.ACC will actually be loaded into memory.
If Stik complains there isn't a cookie jar, then you need to stick JAR10.PRG
(in the PATCHES directory) in the auto-folder. Once that's done select it
from the "Desktop" menu and click on "Connect". If you have done all that
you had to do right so far it will go through various message, and finally
tell you you're connected. If it doesn't, have a look at the status it times
out on, and edit the appropriate file (DEFAULT.CFG if the status was
"Connecting", otherwise DIAL.SCR). Next, try running a program. IRC.TOS is
pretty much bug-free (at least in its connections) so it's a good program to
test with. If it succesfully connects to the server, you can either hang
around on IRC (/join #atari) or quit (/quit) and run the browser. Using the
browser is fairly straight-forward. To get started call up the hotlist
(alternate-H) and double click on one of the entries. Enjoy the 'Net!
Tim