Short: Big Dummy's AmigaGuide to INet, ver 1.1 Author: Electronic Freedom Foundation AmigaGuide translation by Robin Evans robin@halcyon.com Uploader: robin halcyon com (Robin Evans) Type: misc Architecture: generic Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet AmigaGuide® format Edition 1.1 Copyright ©1993, Electronic Freedom Foundation This archive contains the complete Big Dummy's Guide in AmigaGuide® format. The guide was prepared for Electronic Frontier Foundation and is a excellent introduction to the Net. This revised edition corrects some mistakes in the original and adds some additional information. The index to the AmigaGuide version has been extended. To use this version under release 1.3 or 2.x of the OS, you will need to obtain the AmigaGuide utility program. Under Release 3.0, you can use the guide with MultiView. The text version from which this AmigaGuide was built is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org. The text version is /pub/EFF/papers/big-dummys-guide.txt The guide may also be obtained in HyperCard format for the Mac. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About this guide: This AmigaGuide version was prepared by Robin Evans (robin@halcyon.com). The menus in the guide are recursive: If you choose an item from one of the menu (multi-button) pages you will be able to read all other nodes on the same level by pressing the Browse key. At the end on the current level, you will be returned to the menu page from which you began. Pressing Browse again will take you to the next node on that level. To run it, put all the files in a directory and click on the icon. If you start it from the CLI or from a directory utility, you may have to add the path of this guide to the env: variable amigaguide/path. (See the AmigaGuide help node -- press help when AmigaGuide is open -- for more information on the environmental variables.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright permission: Below is a letter from EFF granting permission to distribute this version: From ssteele@eff.org Mon Aug 30 10:03:22 1993 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 13:03:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199308301703.AA07634@eff.org> To: Robin Evans From: ssteele@eff.org (Shari Steele) Subject: Re: Dummy's Guide in AmigaGuide format Cc: sac@apple.com, adamg@world.std.com Status: R Hi Robin. We'd very much appreciate it if you'd release it. Please do send me a copy in the Amiga version, and we'll try to put it up onto our ftp site with the other versions. Shari >First, thank you for the wonderful Big Dummy's Guide to Internet. Although >I've downloaded megabytes of information about the Net, I'm still pretty >much a big dummy when it comes to using it. This guide is a tremendous help. > >To make it more accessible on my system, I spent a little time to format it >in the hypertext format released by Commodore. Called AmigaGuide, it is >meant mainly for on-line help systems. > >I have made these slight modifications for the new format: rearranged some >of the sections in the .txt file; added a few sentences on two of the >introductory nodes; added a text file explaining the Amiga ftp sites called >Aminet. Otherwise the text is unchanged. > >Could I get your permission to release this? I would be happy to send you a >copy of the reformatted file before releasing it. The AmigaGuide format is >human-readable, so you will not need an Amiga to review the text. > > Robin Evans robin@halcyon.com > r.evans6@genie.geis.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AmigaGuide is a trademark of Commodore-Amiga Inc. HyperCard is a trademark of Apple