The SLIP/PPP Connection: The Essential Guide to Graphical Internet Access - Softcover

Gilster, Paul

9780471117124: The SLIP/PPP Connection: The Essential Guide to Graphical Internet Access

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471117129 ISBN 13: 9780471117124

Publisher: Wiley, 1995

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You Need This Book to Access the World Wide Web and to Use Graphical Internet Tools!

Using Netscape, Mosaic, WinGopher, and other new graphical programs requires a Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) or a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connection to the Internet. But few computer users know how to establish such a connection. Fewer still know of the many benefits of graphical Internet access beyond surfing the World Wide Web. The SLIP/PPP Connection provides all the information you need to overcome the now-legendary obstacles of establishing these special Internet accounts and to achieve smooth, graphical access to the World Wide Web and the rest of the Internet. Written by internationally acclaimed Internet guru Paul Gilster, this is the first complete, step-by-step guide to getting, using, and maintaining a SLIP or PPP connection. You'll be able to select, find, and download the right hardware and software for every Internet application.

The book features:

Step-by-step instructions on how to make your PC or Mac SLIP- or PPP-ready
Critical and hard-to-find techniques that make it easier than ever to install and troubleshoot software that runs under a SLIP/PPP connection
Everything you need to know about loading and using Netscape, Mosaic, cello, WinWAIS, HGopher, Newswatcher, and other shareware, freeware, and client programs that run with SLIP/PPP
Tips on how to best take advantage of e-mail, FTP, USENET, WAIS, Telnet, and other protocols with SLIP/PPP

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See inside for dozens of coupons that entitle you to free or reduced-rate SLIP accounts from the leading Internet service providers.

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From the Publisher:

The definitive guide to the ins and outs of securing and maintaining a SLIP connection to the Internet. Explains how SLIP is different from an ordinary dial-up link, why it is essential in this day of graphical user interfaces, what individuals need in order to make their computers SLIP-ready and the diverse types of client programs that will run SLIP. Discusses the Mosaic interface in great detail and other interfaces such as cello and viola.

About the Author:

PAUL GILSTER is the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling books The Internet Navigator, Finding It on the Internet, and The Mosaic Navigator, all published by Wiley. In addition to being president of the Internet Association of the Carolinas, he is the regular Internet columnist for Connect magazine, a frequent contributor to CompuServe magazine, and author of "Computer Focus," a syndicated column on computers and business.

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