Welcome to Amiga Envoy 2.0! Thank you for your purchase of Amiga Envoy 2.0. This readme file contains important information for both new users and for upgrade users. Please read all of it before continuing. What's New IAM software engineers Heinz Wrobel and Dale L. Larson spent months adding features and perfecting this release of Amiga Envoy. IAM (and its distributors and dealers) are the only legitimate source for this release. Please support the work of those still devoted to the Amiga by purchasing their products. New features for 2.0 include support of AmigaOS 2.04 DOS packet types (including notification and record locking), support for removable media, enhanced reliability and robust recovery, localization, AmigaGuide documentation, and more. For general information about networking and for step-by-step documentation for basic use of Envoy, we strongly recommend the book "Connect Your Amiga! A Guide to the Internet, LANs, BBSs and Online Services." The book is US$24.95 and is available from your Amiga dealer or direct from IAM. SPECIAL NOTE FOR 2.0: Choice of IP and ARP types ARP is Address Resolution Protocol. It lets Envoy determine the hardware addresses of other machines without user configuration or intervention. It has always been standard with Ethernet, but prior to 2.0 was never used with any other hardware. It is now also used with ARCNet. This makes it so that you have to set the ARCNet address DIP switches on each card uniquely, but do not have to configure the Envoy network addresses to match the DIP switch settings. Since the DIP switches are documented incorrectly, it was always difficult to do so anyway. 1. Use "Default" checkmarks ONLY if you have Ethernet or ARCNET HW. 2. If in doubt concerning functionality, turn off ARP by setting the ARP type to 0 3. For the current (as of 1/95) ppp.device ARP definitely needs to be turned off. SPECIAL NOTE FOR 2.0: RMS & Volume names Removable Media Support is RMS. Prior to Envoy 2.0, you could not export a 3.5" floppy disk, CD-ROM drive, or other removable media. Now you can. If exporting any drive with RMS, one should _not_ specify an export name in the config as otherwise the true volume name would not be used correctly. NetProbe Hakan Tandogan has created a wonderful utility for Amiga Envoy. It is a great help in figuring out what is going on with your configuration. If you have any problems at all, especially in a complex setup, NetProbe is a Godsend. Hakan has graciously given us permission to include his software with our distribution. He asks that you send a post card if you use his software, so please do! Unfortunately, the archive is too large to fit on our distribution disk. You can get NetProbe from most sources of freely redistributable software -- as of 1/95, the current version is 4.24. If you have trouble obtaining it, you can order IAM's set of freely redistributable disks for networking and telecomm. The set of disks cost $27 plus shipping and handling -- see iam.guide for more information. Locale The German catalog is available on the install disk, but it is not currently installed by the installer script. We need to translate the installer script and create other catalogs for other languages. If you are interested in volunteering to translate to your language, please email IAM at one of the addresses below. AmigaOS Amiga Envoy requires AmigaOS 2.04 or better. We strongly recommend that you upgrade to AmigaOS 3.1 with an official 3.1 upgrade kit available from your reputable Amiga dealer. AmigaOS 3.1 fixes a large number of bugs, and adds significant new features. Every serious Amiga user should upgrade. If you don't have Amiga OS 3.0, you will need to obtain an AmigaGuide reader to make the best use of AmigaEnvoy.guide and iam.guide. Several are available in freely redistributable form. Users of AmigaOS 3.1 will want to try SwazInfo, included in an archive on the install disk. IAM has licensed this great WorkBench info requester replacement from David Swasbrook so that you can use it. Developers developer.lha can be unpacked with lhex (included) and contains developer includes, autodocs, etc. Complex Networks Most Amiga Envoy users have a simple network with a single LAN. The AmigaGuide and/or printed documentation is for those users. For complex networks (i.e., internetworking, realm servers, security), developer.lha, contains text files which can get you started. Huge Files If you have particularly large files (many megs) on your Amiga Envoy server, some operations (seek, for example) may take so long that Envoy times out. This isn't good, but it only affects the very largest files. If you are technically astute, there is something you can do. It is a good idea anyway, since it enhances performance even if you aren't using a network. You can repartition the server drive with HDToolbox, upping the number of sectors/block on the server from 1 to (say) 4 (2K sectors). This will cut down the time to seek by a factor of roughly 16 (1/4 as many blocks to store in extensions, and each extension block is 4 times larger). Technical Support Intangible Assets Manufacturing offers *no*free*telephone*support* for any products. The Amiga dealer from which you purchased Amiga Envoy may be able to provide some technical support. Questions will be answered in the UseNet comp.sys.amiga.networking newsgroup, and in the Communications section of the CompuServe AmigaUser forum. IAM also offers free technical support via email, fax and mail: envoy-help@iam.com -- for technical support envoy-bugs@iam.com -- to report bugs (provide details!!!) fax +1 610 853 3733 Intangible Assets Manufacturing 828 Ormond Avenue Drexel Hill, PA 19026-2604 USA Legal All changes in Amiga Envoy from 1.6a to 2.0 are: Copyright 1994-1995 Intangible Assets Manufacturing. All rights reserved. Envoy is Copyright 1985-1993 Commodore-Amiga, Inc., All Rights Reserved. Distributed under license from Commodore. Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Workbench and Kickstart are trademarks of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Sentiment IAM Software Engineer Heinz Wrobel would like to note that the work he did on Envoy is "dedicated to Joan." Thanks Ken and Greg (formerly of Commodore) started this mess. Randell (Commodore class of '94) cleaned some of it up. They made Envoy, and did a great job. Heinz did most of the hard work for 2.0. Our beta testers (Adam, Ronald, Kent, Gregory, Kai, Randell, and more) each made important contributions, but special big thanks to Dave Eaves! -Dale