8.  Appendix
 
8.1  Access Servers
 
When you use the access services, you connect to the information
server associated with the particular service. The client software
programs are already preconfigured with the correct server addresses.
The access servers and their respective electronic addresses follow.
 
     Server             Address
     ------ --------    ------ -------
     Access             access.psu.edu
     Email              email.psu.edu
     News server        news.psu.edu
     Gopher             info.psu.edu
     Phone directory    ph.psu.edu
     World Wide Web     www.psu.edu
 
 
8.2  UART Specifications for DOS Machines
 
What kind of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter) do
you have?  Find out by running MSD.EXE (Microsoft Diagnostic; it comes
with Windows).  Choose the COM port box and it will tell you all kinds
of information about your COM ports, including the type of UART.
 
In general it is not possible to run any DOS-based SLIP or PPP package
(CACSLIP, Lanera SLIP, PC/TCP PPP, etc.) in Windows enhanced mode
unless you have a 16550A UART. Unless you have an IBM PS/2 computer
chances are good you have either an 8250 UART or a 16450 UART.
 
If you do not have a 16550A UART your choices are to
     --   buy one-- it's well worth the money;
     --   run Windows in standard mode; or
     --   run SLIP/PPP routines under straight DOS.
 
 
8.3  If You Use PSUVM
 
If you have an account on PSUVM, you can use the commands MAIL,
NETNEWS, GOPHER, or PHLIST. However, you should be aware that certain
PSUVM accounts expire at the end of the semester, whereas your Access
Account remains active until graduation or termination of employment.
Also, PSUVM does not have the capability to display all the items
found on Gopher such as pictures and sound.  You may find the
microcomputer clients easier to use and more convenient. For example,
Eudora, the email client available for Macintosh and Windows enables
you to attach a Microsoft Word document or binary file to a mail
message.
 
 
8.4  Using FTP on PSUVM
 
If you FTP the files to your PSUVM account, you should reformat the
files on VM with the CMS command LREC512 before downloading them to
your personal computer. An example of the LREC512 command follows:
 
              lrec512 nupopf exebin a nupopf exebin e
 
You must reformat the files first because the PCTRANS command on VM
(or the PCXYTERM front-end) that is used to copy files to a personal
computer running YTerm (DOS) or Tincan (Macintosh) is limited to
records of length 512 bytes.  "FTP'ing" binary files results in
records of up to 8192 bytes.