From: "French Luser" Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm References: <41ab2c7e$0$31672$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: AFTER8 File Format Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:44:51 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Lines: 224 Message-ID: <41ac7955$0$30439$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> Organization: les newsgroups par Wanadoo NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.248.43.17 X-Trace: 1101822293 news.wanadoo.fr 30439 81.248.43.17:52246 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Hello, "Anonymous Guy"! The reason why I had not mentioned the name of this program were twofold: 1) I wanted to know if you would clearly volunteer to do something 2) As I typed this answer from the cybercafe, I had forgotten most details about this program. Back home, I edited one of its file. Yours Sincerely, "French Luser" MINUET.TXT (File MINUET.DOC edited by Emmanuel ROCHE.) ---------- Minuet (Minnesota INternet User's Essential Tool) Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 - University of Minnesota Minuet was developed and is maintained by the University of Minnesota. For University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and students, Minuet is available without fee. Although commercial distribution is restricted, you may freely give Minuet to your friends. Minuet is distributed as shareware. If, after trying the program for 15 days, you decide to continue using it, you must register your copy by sending $50 to: Distributed Computing Services attn: minuet shareware 190 Shepherd Labs University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Site licences are also available. Contact softw...@boombox.micro.umn.edu for further info. Developed by: George Gonzalez, Kim Pearson, Earl Schleske Phil Kachelmyer, Steven Collins. Overview -------- Minuet is an integrated package of TCP/IP network tools for the IBM PC and compatibles. It is aimed at all network users that wish to do email and other Internet services with a minimum of fuss and bother. Minuet includes: * Electronic Mail * NetNews * Telnet * World Wide Web * Gopher * FTP * Address book (Finger) * and more... General overview ---------------- E-MAIL ------ Minuet's e-mail is derived from the U of Minn "POPMail" package. Minuet e-mail, like POPMail, is an easy-to-use SMTP (internet) mail client. User's of POPMail should be able to use Minuet mail with little or no trouble. NetNews ------- Minuet's "news" window lets you access UseNet newsgroups. It has a simple point and click interface that lets you easily: * Choose from a list of newsgroups you are interested in. * Fetch a number of news messages * View the messages. * Compose follow-ups or new news messages. Using Minuet's news requires very little extra learning, as it uses the same user interface as Minuet mail. News messages are treated just like mail messages. All the operations one can perform on Minuet mail can also be done on news messages. This erases some of the artificial boundaries between e-mail and netnews. World Wide Web -------------- Minuet has a World Wide Web brower built-in. With it, you can view any Web document. It even displays graphics on EGA or newer video displays. Minuet now has a pretty good WWW browser. It displays HTML documents in the standard way. If you have an EGA or better Video display, Minuet can display graphic images, such a inline GIF and JPEG images. Graphics works best on a VGA or Super-VGA VESA display, running on a fast 386 or better CPU. If you have an older PC, Minuet's WWW browser may be a bit too slow for extensive use. You can still use it in text mode and browse through everything, but graphic images. Gopher ------ Minuet includes a general-purpose Gopher client. Gopher is a distributed information service developed at the U of Minn. With the Gopher window in Minuet, you can browse through a great deal of information put up on Gopher servers worldwide. For instance, with a few simple clicks, you can: * Access a library of song lyrics. * Browse the library catalog at Long Beach's library. * Peruse MIT's student conduct code. * View the list of databases at a tech institute in Israel. FTP --- Minuet includes a simple FTP client. Again, a point and click interface makes it easy for anyone to send or receive files. Minuet's FTP client overcomes many of the typical hangups with using FTP: * Automatically displays the available files in a tree-like format. * Automatically determines the transfer mode for most files. * Automatically determines what are directories and files. * Displays file sizes. * Built-in text browser for "README" files and the like. Minuet's FTP client is not a FTP "server". Graphics -------- You can now configure Minuet to run in a wide variety of display modes. There is a new Setup//Monitors dialog box that lets you choose from a wide variety of display modes. The modes you can use may be limited by your particular video adapter or monitor. But Minuet lets you use virtually any mode that can possibly run on your PC. You can choose between text modes of 24 lines by 80 characters, or 42 lines by 132 characters. You can choose graphics modes with 16, 256, or 65,536 colors. These can be in resolutions of 640x480 up to 1600x1280. GIF and JPEG images look best at 256 or more colors. The higher resolutions also let you see more of the document at a time. However, the higher the resolution or number of colors, the slower the display will update. You will need a VESA compatible video card, or an older card with a VESA driver added, to make use of the higher video modes. All the colors in Minuet are now editable. The normal suite of colors is quite adequate for most purposes. See the EXTRAS\MINUET.DEF file for further info. URLs ---- Minuet now understands URL's (Uniform Resource Locators). You can click on a URL and ask Minuet to open that document. Minuet calls on its Internet tools to fetch WWW documents, FTP files, Telnet sessions, Gopher sessions, and mail. You don't need any external programs or viewers for any of these URL's -- Minuet can handle them all. Minuet also keeps a log of recently accessed URLs, so you can easily revisit favorite URLs. Multi-Tasking ------------- Previous versions of Minuet did a limited amount of Multi-tasking. For example, you could have Telnet and/or FTP running in the background while you browsed through mail. But that was about the extent of it. In this version, every part of Minuet is Multi-Tasking. For example, you can be fetching news, fetching mail, sending mail, and using WWW, all at the same time. There are no more modes where you have to wait for Mail fetching or sending to finish. Internationalization -------------------- All the text in Minuet is now editable. Most users in English-speaking countries can use the built-in English text suite. Users in other cultures may wish to translate the text into other languages. Note that this is not an easy task, as there are over 1800 text messages to translate. See the EXTRAS\MINUET.MSG file for further instructions on this. EOF