1. What is I-Comm ? I-Comm is a full feature graphical World Wide Web browser with full modem communication functionality. Designed specially for modem computer users, I-Comm only requires a PC, a modem and an Internet Shell account. It does NOT require any kind of SLIP/PPP connection. 2. What is I-Comm's minimum system requirements ? a. 386dx running MS-Windows (tm) 3.1 or later with 4MB Memory and 1MB Disk Space; b. 9.6 KB Modem or faster; c. An UNIX shell account with Internet access; d. Z-Modem transfer program "sz" installed in your UNIX shell account search path; e. "icomhost" program from Talent Communications, installed in your UNIX shell account search path; Or Lynx browser installed in your UNIX shell account search path; Or WWW browser installed in your UNIX shell account search path; 3. How to install I-Comm using I-Comm disk? a. Insert I-Comm disk into your floppy disk drive (A or B); b. Start MS-Windows; c. Click on the File menu of your Windows Program Manager; d. Select Run, then type A:\SETUP (or B:\SETUP) and press OK. 4. How to install I-Comm using I-Comm ZIP file? a. Create a TEMP directory on your hard disk, unzip (pkunzip) the I-Comm ZIP file under that directory; b. Start MS-Windows; c. Click on the File menu of your Windows Program Manager; d. Select Run, then type C:\TEMP\SETUP (or D:\TEMP\SETUP) and press OK. 5. How to run I-Comm ? a. Click on the File menu of your Windows Program Manager; b. Select Run, then type C:\I-COMM\BIN\I-COMM and press OK. 6. What is "icomhost" ? "icomhost" is the Internet World Wide Web service program for I-Comm. You must place it in your Internet Shell account search path, before using I-Comm to surf the Internet. 7. Where can I get "icomhost" ? Currently, we have icomhost for Sun4, HP and BSDI. If you are using other platforms, please let us know, we will try to port it for you. The current version for icomhost is 1.00 Beta3. You can obtain it from following ftp sites: Netcom ftp site: Sun4: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ic/icomm/sun4/icomhost.gz HP : ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ic/icomm/hp/icomhost.gz BSDI: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ic/icomm/bsdi/icomhost.gz Best Internet ftp site: Sun4: ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/icomm/sun4/icomhost.gz HP : ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/icomm/hp/icomhost.gz BSDI: ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/icomm/bsdi/icomhost.gz 8. How to install "icomhost" ? a. Download "icomhost.gz" to your Internet shell account; b. Type "gzip -d icomhost.gz" in your Internet shell account; c. Use "chmod 700 icomhost" to make "icomhost" Executable; d. Place it in your shell account search path; e. Type "icomhost -t" at the command line. If it can download the "icomtest.htm" file properly, that means you have installed "icomhost" program successfully. 9. After I started I-Comm, how can I connect to Internet ? STOP: you have to installed "Z-modem" program "sz", and one of following program: icomhost, lynx or www before you using I-Comm to connect to Internet. a. Click on the Communication menu of I-Comm program; Select Com Port Setup, select the correct modem port and its setup; b. Click on the Communication menu of I-Comm program again; Select Phone Book or Manual Dial, connect to your Internet provider, use the terminal window in I-Comm to login your account; c. After login, click on the "Browser" button to bring the HTML window to the front; (Note: you cannot close the Terminal window, but you can icon it) d. Now you are ready to do Internet Surfing by click on the text which is underlined. 10. How can I switch to I-Comm Terminal window from the Browser Window ? Or switch to the Browser window from the Terminal Window ? When you are in I-Comm browser window, click on the "Terminal" button to switch to the Terminal window. When you are in I-Comm Terminal window, click on the "Browser" button to switch to the browser window. 11. Can I use I-Comm with a direct serial line connection ? Yes. Select "Communication --> Com Port Setup" menu, setup the com port(at same time, the program will also open the port for you), then you are ready to surf the net. In case you want to send any command through the serial line, you can switch to the I-Comm Terminal Window, type the command directly. 12. How can I STOP a file transfer process ? While I-Comm is downloading a file from Internet, you can click on the "STOP" button to cancel the "remaining file" transfer, and click on the "cancel" button of the file transfer dialog to stop the current file transfer. 13. Does I-Comm save the visited Web pages on my local disk, so I can look at it again later on ? Yes. I-Comm saves all the downloaded pages in the "c:/i-comm/cache" directory. Turn on the "Use Local Cache File" flag, click on the links which you already downloaded, I-Comm will automatically load the page from your local disk. If you want to update the current page, just click on the "Reload" button, I-Comm will retrieve that page for you from the Internet. If you want to clean some of the cache files, you can select "Special--> Clean Cache Files" menu. There is also a file named "index" which contains the HTTP address and local file name mapping. 14. Can I edit the HTML file in I-Comm ? Yes. Select "File --> Edit HTML Source" menu, I-Comm will let you to use Windows Notepad to edit the current HTML file. After finishing editing, you can click on the "Reload" button to see what it looks like. 15. How can I setup my external viewer programs for GIF, MOV, etc ? Select "File --> Edit Configure File" menu will allow you to use Windows Notepad to change the I-Comm configure file. 16. Can I use I-Comm to download a list of files in batch mode ? Yes. Select "File --> Batch Download" menu, I-Comm will popup a batch download dialog box. You can use the "Right" mouse button click on the hyper link to add it into the batch download list. 17. How can I use I-Comm with "lynx" or "www" instead of icomhost program as my Internet Host Program ? Select "Special --> Internet Host Program --> Use Lynx" or "Special --> Internet Host Program --> Use www" to setup I-Comm to work with "lynx" or "www". 18. How to reach I-Comm's supporting stuff ? a. For Questions, send E-Mail to: icomm@talentcom.com or browse our home page at: http://www.best.com/~icomm/ b. For discussions on I-Comm, post to newsgroup: comp.infosystems.www.users