• Getting/Installing Netscape if you have a direct network connection
   
  1. Make sure you entered your username when prompted by Windows at start up
  2. Go to START, FIND, COMPUTER, and specify SHOVELER
  3. Double Click on SHOVELER when it finds it
  4. Double click on the W95STUFF folder
  5. Finally double click on NS.EXE (may appear as just NS)
   
• Getting/Installing Netscape if you connect to the network using a modem
   
  1. Go to START, RUN, \windows\FTP FTP.CNSS.SWT.EDU
  2. Enter "anonymous" for username and guest as the password
  3. type BIN for binary, LCD C:\, hash, GET ns.exe
     Example session:

     Connected to shoveler.cnss.swt.edu.
     220 shoveler Microsoft FTP Service (Version 3.0).
     User (shoveler.cnss.swt.edu:(none)): anonymous
     331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity 
             (e-mail name) as password.
     Password:
     230-For access to SWT PRIVATE site license software see
      the file swtpriv for information!
     230 Anonymous user logged in.
     ftp> cd w95stuff
     250 CWD command successful.
     ftp> bin
     200 Type set to I.
     ftp> lcd c:\
     Local directory now C:\
     ftp> hash
     Hash mark printing On (2048 bytes/hash mark).
     ftp> get ns.exe
     
     It will take a while (hour or so) to download 
     the newest version.

  4. Finally Double click on C:\NS.EXE after it is downloaded

 

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• Configuring Netscape
   
  1. Double click on the Netscape icon on your desktop
  2. Go to EDIT, PREFERENCES, MAIL AND GROUPS, click on Mail
  3. Make both the incoming and outgoing servers are set to: academia.swt.edu
  4. Next enter your VMS username for the mail server user name
  5. Decide if you want messages left on the VMS sytem or removed and how often you want it to check for mail.
  6. Click on Identity and fill in your name and Internet address ([email protected]). Leave the reply to address blank (unless you want replies to go somewhere else) and enter an organization like SWTSU. Finally click on OK.
  7. Click on GROUP Server and enter news.swt.edu as the news server.
  8. Next click on Navigator, and then set the home page to www.swt.edu  to use SWT's home page. Click on OK.