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-<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2>
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-<P><B>IMPORTANT:</B>
-<P>What you'll be left with once you've followed these instructions
-is (hopefully) a working DX Spider v1.47 system that is capable
-of accepting or originating "internet" connections, plus inbound
-AX.25 and TCP/IP radio connections. If the absence of outbound
-radio connections is a serious limitation for you, it would be
-better for you to wait a couple more weeks until this support has
-been added.
-<P>On the other hand, you may have an enquiring mind, or better yet,
-may be looking for a useful way of connecting your current
-(perhaps) AK1A cluster "to the internet" via some networking
-mechanism (BPQEther, etc) or other. I won't be producing
-instructions for the latter case, because I don't have an AK1A to
-play with. But someone might ...
-<P>Whatever, this document is intended to get you started with DX
-Spider in a Microsoft Windows ™ environment. It's not
-intended to teach you anything other than how to perform a
-minimum configuration of a DX Spider installation and have it
-able to connect across "the internet" to other DX Clusters, while
-accepting inbound TELNET and radio connections.
-<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 The requirements</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>The very first things you're going to need are (in order of
-importance):-
-<P>
-<UL>
-<LI>A cup of good, strong tea</LI>
-<LI>A supported Windows platform with an internet connection so you can
-download the necessary software bits and bobs directly to it. There are other ways, but this is preferable.</LI>
-<LI>Another cup of good, strong tea</LI>
-<LI>If all goes according to plan, about an hour to spare</LI>
-<LI>Plenty of good, strong tea</LI>
-</UL>
-<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 The system</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>The platform I used to generate these instructions was a
-"vanilla" Microsoft Windows Me 4.90.3000 system, with a 700MHz
-AMD Athlon processor and 96 Mb memory. I've also personally
-verified that it runs on my laptop (Pentium 266MHz, 32 Mb memory,
-Windows 98 SE v4.10.2222 A) and a computer that I assembled from
-a random pile of junk (AMD K6-2 333MHz, 64 Mb memory, Windows 98
-v4.10.1998). As a result, I have reason to believe that what I'm
-about to describe will perform equally on any 32-bit MS Windows
-environment with 32 Mb of memory.
-<P>Because of the changes that have recently been made to the core
-"cluster.pl" module and the introduction of a very lightweight
-"winclient.pl", I have a sneaking suspicion that this will now
-run on any platform that has reasonably complete support for
-Perl. Is there someone out there with both an enquiring mind and
-(say) a Macintosh, for instance?
-<P>Please bear in mind, though, that my instructions relate solely
-to how to get this going under a Microsoft Windows environment,
-and I have zero intention of trying to make them say otherwise.
-<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss1.3">1.3 Perl</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>Install your chosen Perl environment. Unless you have a very good
-reason for not doing so, I strongly suggest that you use
-ActivePerl v5.6. For my testing & development, I used build 623.
-You can get this from:-
-<A HREF="http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html">http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html</A><P>You will need to choose either the MSI or the AS package. My
-recommendation is that you choose the MSI package and deal with
-the consequences if your system isn't equipped with support for
-the latest MS Installer; you'll be better off in the long run.
-The build 623 download is 7,460 KB, so now is a really good time
-to have some tea if you're on a slow dial-up connection.
-<P>During installation, please ensure that you do choose the options
-to "Add Perl to the PATH environment variable" and "Create Perl
-file extension association"; it will make your life so much
-easier. Once the installation is finished, be sure to reboot your
-PC. You probably won't be told anywhere else that this needs to
-be done now, but it does. Really.
-<P>Once you've rebooted, open a "DOS box" (Start > Run > command
-might do it, if you can't find it elsewhere) and from wherever it
-lands, type PERL -v <ENTER> (it's better if that's a lower-case
-'v', because an upper-case 'V' means something else. You should
-be rewarded with some interesting information about your Perl
-installation. If you're not, you must go back to the beginning
-and discover what went wrong and fix it. It's pointless to
-proceed unless this simple check is passed. Assuming it did work,
-you may now move on.
-<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss1.4">1.4 Additional packages</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>Some extensions ("packages") need to be added to the base Perl
-distribution, and we'll do this next. If you're using the Perl I
-recommended, and don't know any better for yourself, then just
-blindly following these instructions will work just fine. If that
-didn't describe you, then you're on your own.
-<P>Visit the following URL:
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/">http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/</A><P>and download the following files:-
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-Data-Dumper.zip
-Net-Telnet.zip
-TimeDate.zip
-Time-HiRes.zip
-DB_File.zip
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>Make yourself a convenient directory to unpack all of these zip
-files into (I put mine in "D:\ppm>") and do the following (the
-bits you type in are blue ). Note that where these files land
-will be directly related to where you chose to install your
-ActivePerl (mine, as you can probably guess from what follows,
-went into "D:\Perl"):-
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-D:\ppm>ppm install Data-Dumper.ppd
-Installing package 'Data-Dumper.ppd'
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.bs
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.dll
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.exp
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.lib
-Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.html
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Data\Dumper\Dumper.pm
-Writing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.packlist
-D:\ppm>
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>I'm not going to bother you with exhaustive details of the rest
-of them, but suffice it to say you need to:
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-ppm install DB_File.ppd
-ppm install Net-Telnet.ppd
-ppm install TimeDate.ppd
-ppm install Time-HiRes.ppd
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>If all that seemed to work OK, time to move along. Before anyone
-who is familiar with PPM tells me that we didn't need to download
-and keep those files locally, I knew that. I also knew that PPM
-is sometimes awkward to configure via firewalls, and that
-sometimes the repositories don't always work the way we'd hope. I
-do it that way because it suits me.
-<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss1.5">1.5 Getting Spider</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>Get the current version of the DX Spider distribution. This needs
-to be v1.47 or later. You've got two ways (currently) of getting
-this; either get a CVS update from sourceforge (if you don't know
-what this is, then it isn't for you) or get my package from:-
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://www.dcc.rsgb.org/WinSpider.zip">http://www.dcc.rsgb.org/WinSpider.zip</A><P>or if you want the lastest CVS version (which is produced every night)
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz">http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz</A><P>If you went down the CVS route, then everything will be nicely
-set out on your local disk. If you got the ZIP file, unpack it to
-somewhere convenient. The following examples assume that you put
-it on drive "C:\", for convenience.
-<P><B>NOTE:</B> This distribution method will go away as soon as the first
-v1.47 tarball is released. You can use WinZip to unpack that, and
-my life will be made easier by not needing to keep this .ZIP file
-updated.
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