Help and Frequently Asked Questions

What's new? Not much, aside from the launch of several interesting and informative Internet training courses! New users who have mastered a World Wide Web Browser should check out The Internet Roadmap, a great introduction to the Internet.

The searchable index of all the help pages is a nice, fast way to jump straight to what you're looking for.

Miscellaneous Settings for SLIP and Dial-up

	The following is a list of various settings required to 
setup SLIP with Internex Online, as well as various other bits
of information that may help improve your time here.


             Dial-Up Lines (Regular) - (416) 363-4151 ( main number)
                                     - (416) 214-1569 ( 60 lines in)
                                     - (416) 363-4621 (120 lines in)
                           (Premium) - (416) 363-1908 ( main number)

            Domain Name Server (DNS) - 198.133.36.8
                                     - 198.133.36.1
                          FTP Server - ftp.io.org
                         News Server - news.io.org
                   Accounting Server - http://www-acctng.io.org
                   Mail Server (POP) - mail.io.org
                  Mail Server (SMTP) - mail2.io.org
         World Wide Web Server (WWW) - http://www.io.org
    Internet Relay Chat Server (IRC) - irc.io.org


       Support E-Mail Addresses...

              - General Information ........... info@io.org
              - Billing Questins ........... billing@io.org
              - OS/2 Help ................. os2-help@io.org
              - Macintosh Help ............ mac-help@io.org
              - Misc System Help ........... syshelp@io.org 
              - Slip Help ................ slip-help@io.org 
              - Basic Terminal Software .. term-help@io.org 
              - MS Windows Help ......... mswin-help@io.org
              - Misc Operating Systems .. other-help@io.org

Local Help Sections

Usenet News
If you want to read the Usenet news, you'll need to use a "newsreader." Two of the most commonly used are trn (threaded read news) and nn (no news (is good news)). Usenet Newsgroups: Resources is a good general overview of news as a whole.
Electronic Mail
You'll be sending and receiving electronic mail, and to do so you'll want to use either pine (recommended) or elm.
Text Editors
If you want a simple one, use pico or joe. Unix guri are constantly at war as to which is better, vi or emacs. (vi, vi!) (slap!)
Offline News and Mail Readers
To save your on-line time, you might want to use an offline news and mail reader.
Internet Relay Chat
The Internet Relay Chat is, as Dave Barry put it, "Like CB radio but with more typing." Tons of information is available (if you have Internet access) at IRC Related Resources on the Net.
Unix
The Unix shell can be confusing at first, but is extremely powerful.
SLIP and PPP Connections
SLIP and PPP connections provide a graphical interface to the Internet. Point and click, that is. And you can see pictures.
You might want a list of all the local Internex Online newsgroups (io.*). You can even read them using your Web browser.

Still totally lost? Two good ways to figure out the Internet are to look at the online guides and to buy a good book (yes, actually printed on real paper).

Other Helpful Things

Helpful Web-Related Files

If you have any suggestions or comments about the help pages (including links you think should be added), or questions with answers you think should be included, then please send mail to webmaster@io.org.

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Last modified: Monday January 8, 1996