Publisher's Synopsis
This text addresses Windows and DOS/UNIX Internet users who know how to get connected and now want to know how to optimize their connections. The book compiles tips and tricks on the most popular Internet applications, including how to send a picture along with e-mail messages transmitted. Multimedia capabilities are available on the Internet.;The book includes performance tuning for faster Internet connections, including how to optimize Mosaic's available configuration parameters for your specific situation, advice for the top ten Internet applications, including Mosaic (for Windows and UNIX users), Gopher (the three different versions), ftp, and WAIS. It advises how to manage the flood of information that users have selected to come to their computers from e-mail and Usenet groups. Also Internet programs that provide security for user's computers and whether a firewall system is the best option. Included is the coverage of the Macintosh in relation to Internet.;Two disks are included - one for Windows users and one for UNIX users. consisting of all the UNIX platforms, including awk, erl and shell scripts. The Windows disk includes a collection of the best available configuration utilities and existing Internet facilities.
