MAJOR BUG FIXES!
Most noticably - the inclusion of Icon.mcc custom class by Russell
Leighton.
AmNetControl Internet Package - The Internet Organiser!
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Release : 1.2ß (Aminet Beta Release)
Date : 22.01.97
What It Is?!
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The AmNetControl Package is designed to take care of your Internet
related operations. When it is installed, it creates all the common
directories to keep all your programs in including Download and Upload
drawers. It sets Internet related assigns when it is run and removes them
when you quit giving you fast access to Internet Drawers etc. It provides
help on useful topics and tries to give as much help and information to a
new user as possible. It can launch your Internet programs and if you use
Miami and thor, can launch these programs and interact with them. It is
constantly undergoing upgrades and changes to make it the best, most useful
tool of its kind.
Please bare with me if you find serious bugs!, just let me know and they
will be fixed.
Important Release Information
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AmNetControl Requires : MUI 3.6+ Available from Aminet.
AmNetControl is supplied complete except for some custom Installers
which I haven't written yet. They will be posted here when done and will
easily install into the installed package.
Legal
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This program is supplied as freeware. Therefore any problems or damage
arising from use of this program will result in a full refund. ;)
Installation
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DO NOT run this program from the installation drawer. Install it first.
You can just delete the drawer it makes if you don't like it.
Just run the installer program. it will install the AmNetControl Package
and install a default configuration. It will also give you the option of
installing custom installers. Unfortunately Only Miami and Voyager Are
available at this time.
The Installer will make a drawer called 'Internet' where you specify.
Usage
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Usage is pretty simple, Miami can be made to auto run and iconify. you then
just click on on-line to go on-line etc.. your programs can be launched
from the buttons. There are some help features on the pull down menus.
AmNetController uses the short 'bubble' help system of MUI. Just keep your
mouse pointer over an button/option for a few seconds for a description.
Things to remember
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* AmNetController is meant to run as the 'Hub' of your internet session.
for this reason, you should run this program FIRST. It sets assigns and
auto launches Miami (Optional) for you. It will also tell Miami (which
in turn tells other internet programs) to quit.
* You can only launch CLI programs. it supports arguments but not
tooltypes. Although it is possible to launch DOS and Arexx Scripts
using a line such as
'Sys:Rexxc/rx <Arexx script>'
or
'C:Execute <DOS script>'
IMPORTANT:
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* If your Thor System is Not called Internet, Please change it in the
AmNetController Settings even if you don't use AmNetController's Thor
Settings. This is because Thor's SendTCP and GetTCP *Have* to have a
System Specified. You will have to turn off the 'Use Thor Default
Config?' in the Misc settings area. Then go to Thor Settings, change
your system and then change 'Use Thor Default Config?' back.
Everything else should work. If problems are found, please send them to
the email address below.
Things STILL to be added or changed
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* Get Mail at login and Get News at login will probably be in
the next version. At the moment, these only worked with internal serial
device users who use serial.device. Because not everyone uses this, I
decided to leave this out of this release until I can find a better
solution for checking on-line. If you do use the internal serial port via
serial.device, email me and I will send this version to you.
* The installer will undergo more changes and updates. The installers for
AmIRC, thor and the others will take the form of custom modules that i
can change when new versions of the programs come out. These modules
will be uploaded on aminet. A set will be created very soon and included
with the package.
* I still want some icons for the package and a nice new logo. I would
prefer it in the MagicWB style as this is an MUI program which always
look best in a XEN style.
IMPORTANT
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If you feel you can help development of This package, feel free to send me
an Email. NOTE: this is NOT my Email address and so the word 'CRAIG' MUST
be put in the subject so that it can be redirected to me.
stevenw@netcomuk.co.uk
Subject: CRAIG
This Package is Copyright (C)1996 Ian Craig Armitage. All Rights Reserved.
Permission is given to copy/upload this package to wherever you want as
long as the archive stays unchanged.
History
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29.12.96 .090b - Initial release
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29.12.96 .091b - Fixed archiving errors and tidied up a little.
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04.01.97 .096b - Fixed AboutMUI and MUIConfig Menus.
- Removed Miami QUIT Button. Not Needed.
- Changed Close gadget to Iconify to avoid
unwanted shutdowns.
- Fixed stupid user program Hide bug.
- Added Username, Password and FTP Download drawer to
Prefs/Thor.
- Getmail, Get News, Send Events & DoAll now implemented.
- Appicon is now always AmNetController's Icon.
- Added User-Start-up And User-Exit scripts to allow custom
start-up for servers, phone loggers etc... The default
editor can be changed in the prefs and there is 2 new
menu items for editing scripts.
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08.01.97 .097b - Added Bubblehelp and removed Bubblehelp button.
Bubblehelp can be disabled via the MUI Preferences.
- All thor buttons except auto-doall now work. But they
need testing.
- TELNET: assign replaced with more useful 'MISC:' assign.
- Added Custom Written MUI Based Installer(0.5ß). This,
for me, has more versatility for messing with my configs
etc.
- Currently using MagicWB icons from Aminet. I Really need
my own icons!
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09.01.97 .098b - Fixed bugs in AmNetController when no config is available.
- Added more features to Installer including Partial Config
Manipulation (ooh big words!)
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11.01.97 .0981b- Fixed REALLY DUMB bug which looked for sendtcp/gettcp in
Thor: Rather than Thor:bin/
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20.01.97 1.0b - Added Voyager & Miami custom installers. These can be
launched from the Main Installer or From the pull-down
menus in AmNetController. The installers will be updated
when needed for new releases of the programs. They can be
released as small add-ons on the Aminet. In a future
version, i'll make AmNetController Detect what installers
are in your Installers Directory so that new programs
can be installed easier.
- Added new section in prefs for User Information. This
will be used for printing out/constructing Email to send
to your internet provider with information about your
system. Not implemented in this version.
- Added Thor button for launching thor.
- Re-arranged pull-down menus for installers.
- Auto-DoAll button has been converted to an AREXX script
launcher.
- Auto-DoAll arexx script added in Internet:rexx/. This
script will launch Miami (if it's not running), then go
on-line, send thor events, get mail/news. then hang-up and
parse your mail.
- Installer now loads old config file if you install to
the same directory. This is to allow updates to be
installed easier.
- Configuration is now stored in PROGDIR: (the Amnet
directory). this makes it possible to have multiple
installations of AmNetControl for different Internet
Providers.
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21.01.97 1.1b - Added detection for On-line/Off-line but for the moment
will only work with Internet Serial Port. *
- Added 'Send Events After On-line' & 'Get Mail/News'.
Unfortunately, relies on On-line Detection so users
of other serial.devices will have problems. *
- Fixed 'Get News Button'.
- Added Internal commands to send arexx QUIT commands to
Known Internet Apps that do not accept quit commands
from Miami. These are currently Thor & IBrowse.
- Changed wording in various places. Part of my quest to
make the text as easy to understand as possible ;)
* theses functions are in a special version available from me. They are
only of use if you use the internal serial port and the commodore
serial.device.
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30.01.97 1.2b - Included Icon.mcc in the installation archive.
AmNetInstaller would just crash if this class was not
Installed.
- Loads of Internal Changes in Installer including
CreateDir() (Thanks to Kelly J. Cochran!). More changes
will follow.
- Installer now checks for existance of start/stop scripts
and does not install over them if they exist.
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NOTICE
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I am making a public request for Icon Artists to design some icons for
The AmNetController package. I Would Like a plain icon, MWB icon and
NewIcons Icon. Also, If you can do a better logo that i have done, send it
to me. You will be credited in the About requester and the Documents.
The next release will have an Image button bar as an alternative to the big
menu. This will be very similar to the Apps launcher with microsoft office
on the PeeCee. So i would like icons for that too. They should take the
approximate size of the icons in the tool bar of Dopus5.
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