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AMIGANET USER MANUAL
REV. 1.4 JAN. ’90
HYDRA SYSTEMS UK
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Congratulations on your purchase of AMIGANET!
We naturally feel that you have made the right choice, not least
because AMIGANET subscribes to ETHERNET , a major World Standard
maintained by the IEEE Corp. What this means is that, with AMIGANET
Hardware, you have inter—Network connectivity with the leading
products in Networking, and that you will be able to track major
developments in Networking Software.
Thank-you for flying with HYDRA SYSTEMS .
ABOUT AMIGANET
AMIGANET is an ETHERNET Network System for the Commodore AMIGA
range of microcomputers and workstations. It was designed and is
manufactured in the UK, and continues HYDRA SYSTEMS’ involvement
since 1982 in the Networking of CBM products.
There are Networks currently available for the AMIGA of varying
architectures, speeds and abilities. AMIGANET uses the fastest
affordable technology; Ethernet, running at 10MBaud, operates from
4 to 1000 times faster than the other available Network protocols.
AMIGANET is the only Ethernet system to offer Amiga-to-Amiga
(peer to peer) communication, and Amiga File Servers.
AMIGANET is, and we intend that it will always remain, the least
expensive high-end Network System option for the AMIGA.
AMIGANET — SYSTEM OVERVIEW
AMIGANET employs the widely used, Industry-Standard Ethernet
architecture, which now occupies a substantial position in the PC
Network world. AMIGANET is compatible with Ethernet Version 2, and is
fully compliant with IEEE Standards 802.3 Types A and B, which refer to
Ethernet and ‘Cheapernet’ respectively. Cheapernet employs the same
hardware and design standards as Ethernet, but has a built-in Net
Transceiver. It therefore requires no Computer—to-Net Transceiver
cable; Cheapernet can also use a much cheaper form of co-axial cable
(hence the name), resulting in dramatically reduced installation costs.
There are no compromises involved using Cheapernet, merely a reduction
of (the upper limits of) distance and numbers of attached computers.
An illustration of the savings using AMIGANET in Cheapernet Mode;
an Ethernet Transceiver, its connecting cable, and a short Ethernet
segment will cost about the same as the AMIGANET Board.
The AMIGANET design philosophy adopted at the outset was to enable
virtually instantaneous movement of Data of varying types between any
of the Amiga products. Image movement between Amigae naturally has a
high priority, and full Network File support is provided as one of a
number of Network services. In simple terms, the purpose of the Network
is to allow inter—computer communication, and Data and Resource
sharing; subject to Access permissions, any Computer on the Net can
access any other Screen, Storage Device or Printer on the Network as if
it were physically attached locally. The cost savings resulting from
centralised printing and Hard-Disc sharing can be substantial, and the
ability to share Files is fundamental to modern Database design.
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AMIGANET USER MANUAL
Copyright 1989 HYDRA SYSTEMS
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any
form or by any means, or used to make a derivative work (such as a
translation, transformation, or adaptation) without permission in
writing from HYDRA SYSTEMS, Red Lane, Kenilworth, ENGLAND, CV8 1PB.
This Manual accompanies Revs. 1.1 and 2.0 of the Amiganet Local Area
Network product for the Commodore Amiga range of Microcomputers.
Amiga and AmigaDOS are trademarks of Commodore Business Machines, Inc.
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TABLE of CONTENTS
Typographical Conventions.
Page Four
Hardware Overview.
Page Five
Section One:
Hardware Installation.
Page Six
Section Two:
Software Installation.
Page Eight
Section Three:/A
Using AMIGANET .
Page Eleven
/B
Starting AMIGANET .
Page Twelve
Date and Time service.
/C
Sharing files/resources.
Page Thirteen
Mountfiles.
Accessing remote Discs.
Page Fourteen
/D
Sharing Remote Printers.
Page Sixteen
/E
Who’s out there.
Page Seventeen
Chatline.
The TUBE.
Page Eighteen
Section Four:
Command Definitions.
Page Nineteen
Section Five:
General Guidelines.
Page
Section Six:
Current Revision Data.
Page
Section Seven:
Appendices.
Page
Section Eight:
Index.
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TYPOGRAPHICAL CONVENTIONS
The following conventions are used in this manuals
BOLD TYPE
emphasises a new category, or important piece of info.
UPPER CASE
indicates a command, although you can give a command in
either upper or lower case.
< >
enclose generic expectations: for example, if you see
<id>
it means an identifier is expected at this position.
[ ]
surround items that are optional.
{ }
surround optional items that can be repeated; eg.
{<item>} is equivalent to [<item> [<item>]...]
Note:
Read this part if no other.
CAUTION:
indicates a procedure which, if handled carelessly,
could lead to loss of data.
This documentation is not right-justified; the author resisted- the
temptation to have the computer ‘clean it up’ at a keystroke, because
it appears to him that such justified text can have an unnatural visual
feel, an irregularity of eye-movement-rhythm, which after a while
manifests itself as a physical effect rather like wearing glasses for
the first time, or perhaps the wrong glasses, making the text
uncomfortable to read..

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