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-<H2><A NAME="s5">5.</A> <A HREF="installation.html#toc5">Microsoft Windows Installation</A></H2>
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-<H2><A NAME="ss5.1">5.1</A> <A HREF="installation.html#toc5.1">Introduction</A>
-</H2>
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-<P><B>IMPORTANT:</B> </P>
-<P>What you'll be left with once you've followed these instructions
-is (hopefully) a working DX Spider v1.50 system that is capable
-of accepting or originating "internet" connections, plus inbound
-and outbound AX.25 and TCP/IP radio connections.</P>
-<P>On the other hand, you may have an enquiring mind, or better yet,
-may be looking for a useful way of connecting your current
-(perhaps) AK1A cluster "to the internet" via some networking
-mechanism (BPQEther, etc) or other. I won't be producing
-instructions for the latter case, because I don't have an AK1A to
-play with. But someone might ...</P>
-<P>Whatever, this document is intended to get you started with DX
-Spider in a Microsoft Windows ™ environment. It's not
-intended to teach you anything other than how to perform a
-minimum configuration of a DX Spider installation and have it
-able to connect across "the internet" to other DX Clusters, while
-accepting inbound TELNET and radio connections.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.2">5.2</A> <A HREF="installation.html#toc5.2">The requirements</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>The very first things you're going to need are (in order of
-importance):-</P>
-<P>
-<UL>
-<LI>A cup of good, strong tea</LI>
-<LI>A supported Windows platform with an internet connection so you can
-download the necessary software bits and bobs directly to it. There are other ways, but this is preferable.</LI>
-<LI>Another cup of good, strong tea</LI>
-<LI>If all goes according to plan, about an hour to spare</LI>
-<LI>Plenty of good, strong tea</LI>
-</UL>
-</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.3">5.3</A> <A HREF="installation.html#toc5.3">The system</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>The platform I used to generate these instructions was a
-"vanilla" Microsoft Windows Me 4.90.3000 system, with a 700MHz
-AMD Athlon processor and 96 Mb memory. I've also personally
-verified that it runs on my laptop (Pentium 266MHz, 32 Mb memory,
-Windows 98 SE v4.10.2222 A) and a computer that I assembled from
-a random pile of junk (AMD K6-2 333MHz, 64 Mb memory, Windows 98
-v4.10.1998). As a result, I have reason to believe that what I'm
-about to describe will perform equally on any 32-bit MS Windows
-environment with 32 Mb of memory.</P>
-<P>Because of the changes that have recently been made to the core
-"cluster.pl" module and the introduction of a very lightweight
-"winclient.pl", I have a sneaking suspicion that this will now
-run on any platform that has reasonably complete support for
-Perl. Is there someone out there with both an enquiring mind and
-(say) a Macintosh, for instance?</P>
-<P>Please bear in mind, though, that my instructions relate solely
-to how to get this going under a Microsoft Windows environment,
-and I have zero intention of trying to make them say otherwise.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.4">5.4</A> <A HREF="installation.html#toc5.4">Perl</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>Install your chosen Perl environment. Unless you have a very good
-reason for not doing so, I strongly suggest that you use
-ActivePerl v5.6. For my testing & development, I used build 623.
-(A recent installation used the newer ActivePerl v5.6.1, build
-633 without any noticable difficulty.) You can get this from:
-<A HREF="http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html">http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html</A></P>
-<P>The link takes you to an initial page of System Requirements and
-Software Prerequisites. If you do not have it already installed,
-you can download and install the Windows Installer 2.0 for a Win98
-installation. Be forewarned, you will have to reboot your PC at the
-completion of the installer's installation. </P>
-<P>If you already have the installer on your PC, simply click on the
-Next arrow at the bottom of the page. Two clicks will finally get
-you to the actual download page. The MSI version of Build 633 is
-now 8.6MB in size, so make that a big cup of tea or coffee if you're
-on a slow dial-up connection.</P>
-<P>During installation, please ensure that you do choose the options
-to "Add Perl to the PATH environment variable" and "Create Perl
-file extension association"; it will make your life so much
-easier. Once the installation is finished, be sure to reboot your
-PC. You probably won't be told anywhere else that this needs to
-be done now, but it does. Really.</P>
-<P>Once you've rebooted, open a "DOS box" (Start > Run > command
-might do it, if you can't find it elsewhere) and from wherever it
-lands, type PERL -v <ENTER> (it's better if that's a lower-case
-'v', because an upper-case 'V' means something else. You should
-be rewarded with some interesting information about your Perl
-installation. If you're not, you must go back to the beginning
-and discover what went wrong and fix it. It's pointless to
-proceed unless this simple check is passed. Assuming it did work,
-you may now move on.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.5">5.5</A> <A HREF="installation.html#toc5.5">Additional packages</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>Some extensions ("packages") need to be added to the base Perl
-distribution, and we'll do this next. If you're using the Perl I
-recommended, and don't know any better for yourself, then just
-blindly following these instructions will work just fine. If that
-didn't describe you, then you're on your own.</P>
-<P>Visit the following URL:</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/">http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/</A></P>
-<P>and download the following files:-</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-Data-Dumper.zip
-Net-Telnet.zip
-TimeDate.zip
-Time-HiRes.zip
-DB_File.zip
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>If this is a new installation, now would also be a good time to
-install a copy of WinZip on your PC. Make yourself a convenient
-directory to unpack all of these zip files into (I put mine in
-"D:\ppm>" but "C:\ppm" works just as well.) and do the following
-(the bits you type in are blue ). You can upzip all of the files into
-the same directory. When prompted, simply overwrite the Readme file
-from each zip package. Note that where these files land will be
-directly related to where you chose to install your ActivePerl
-(mine, as you can probably guess from what follows, went into "D:\Perl"):-</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-D:\ppm>ppm install Data-Dumper.ppd
-Installing package 'Data-Dumper.ppd'
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.bs
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.dll
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.exp
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.lib
-Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.html
-Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Data\Dumper\Dumper.pm
-Writing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.packlist
-D:\ppm>
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>I'm not going to bother you with exhaustive details of the rest
-of them, but suffice it to say you need to:</P>
-<P>
-<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
-<PRE>
-ppm install DB_File.ppd
-ppm install Net-Telnet.ppd
-ppm install TimeDate.ppd
-ppm install Time-HiRes.ppd
-</PRE>
-</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-</P>
-<P>If all that seemed to work OK, time to move along. Before anyone
-who is familiar with PPM tells me that we didn't need to download
-and keep those files locally, I knew that. I also knew that PPM
-is sometimes awkward to configure via firewalls, and that
-sometimes the repositories don't always work the way we'd hope. I
-do it that way because it suits me.</P>
-
-<H2><A NAME="ss5.6">5.6</A> <A HREF="installation.html#toc5.6">Getting Spider</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>Get the current version of the DX Spider distribution. This needs
-to be v1.50 or later. You've got two ways (currently) of getting
-this; either get a CVS update from sourceforge (if you don't know
-what this is, then it isn't for you) or get the latest "official"
-release from:</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/download/index.html">http://www.dxcluster.org/download/index.html</A></P>
-<P>or if you want the lastest snapshot of CVS version (which is produced
-every night):-</P>
-<P>
-<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz">http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz</A></P>
-<P>This is generally the best one to go for as it is completely up to
-date. However, there is always the very slight chance that it might
-unstable. Generally, there will be a note on the website if this is
-the case. </P>
-
-<P>The only difference between "CVSlatest.tgz" and the latest
-"official" release version is that it is more up to date. <B>Do not confuse
-the "CVSlatest.tgz" file with "Downloading from Sourceforge with CVS" - they
-are two quite different things.</B> "Downloading from Sourceforge with CVS" is
-explained in a section within the Admin manual.</P>
-
-<P>If you go down the CVS route (ie installing WinCVS as explained in the Admin
-manual and downloaded from sourceforge), then everything will be nicely
-installed on your local disk. If you got the CVSlatest.tgz file, unzip
-(
-<A HREF="http://www.winzip.com">winzip</A>) it to "C:\".
-This is an important point since paths are included within the .tgz
-file. Make sure you unzip to the root directory of whichever drive you use...
-"C:\" or "D:\" or .., not "C:\spider." If you double click on CVSlatest.tgz,
-WinZip should open with a dialogue box that says the Archive contains a single
-file (CVSlatest.tar) and asks whether WinZip should decompress it to a
-temporary fold and then open it. Say "Yes" and then you will get the typical
-Classical WinZip listing of files ready for extraction. Remember, extract
-them to your desired root directory ("C:\" or "D:\" or ...). The following
-examples assume that you put it on drive "C:\", for convenience.</P>
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