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-<H2><A NAME="s6">6. General Information</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="s6">6. Installing the software</A></H2>
-<P>The following relates to all versions of DXSpider and is not platform related.
+<P>At this point you will need to create 2 additional directories under
+"C:\Spider." Make directories "C:\spider\local" and "C:\spider\local_cmd".
+If "C:\spider" is missing, go back and figure out why, because it shouldn't be.
+<P>Now create your own local copy of the DXVars.pm file by:-
<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss6.1">6.1 The crontab file</A>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+copy c:\spider\perl\DXVars.pm.issue
+c:\spider\local\DXVars.pm
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>Now you'll need to edit this file using a text editor like Notepad. If nothing
+else, you can simply
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+cd \spider\local
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>and then
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+notepad DXVars.pm
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>to bring up an editor window containing the file. As an absolute
+minimum you must adjust the following items in DXVars.pm:-
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI> $mycall - Should hold the callsign of your DX Cluster</LI>
+<LI> $myname - The SysOp's first name</LI>
+<LI> $myalias - the SysOp's callsign. Cannot be the same as $mycall!</LI>
+<LI> $myqth - The station's geographical location (QTH).</LI>
+<LI> $mylatitude - The station latitude in degrees and decimal fractions</LI>
+<LI> $mylongitude - The station longitude in degrees and decimal fractions</LI>
+<LI> $mylocator - The Maidenhead (or QRA) locator of the station </LI>
+</UL>
+<P>You really also ought to update the $myqth and $myemail variables. And
+unless you are absolutely certain you know what you're doing, you
+should change nothing else in this file. Note that if you use an "@" or
+a "$" character in one of the above strings (typically in $myemail) you must
+write them as "\@" or "\$".
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.1">6.1 Incoming telnets</A>
</H2>
-<P>Login as <EM>sysop</EM> and create a file in /spider/local_cmd called crontab.
-Edit it with your favourite editor and add a line like this (I have included
-a comment)
+<P>If you want to enable inbound "TELNET" connections (or you are running
+Windows 98, NT, 2000 or XP), you've got a little more work to do. From a
+handy "DOS box" that's not doing anything else, do the following:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+copy \spider\perl\Listeners.pm \spider\local
+cd \spider\local
+notepad listeners.pm
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>The following line need attention:-
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-# check every 10 minutes to see if gb7xxx is connected and if not
-# start a connect job going
+# ["0.0.0.0", 7300],
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>On my machine, I've simply uncommented the "0.0.0.0" entry by
+removing the '#' from the front of the line.
+<P><B>You MUST carry out this step if you are
+running on a Windows 98, NT, 2000 or XP based system</B>
+<P>If you don't have a static hostname for your machine, and you
+intend to allow folk to connect to your machine across the
+internet, then I'd suggest you pay a visit to www.dyndns.org and
+create one for yourself. While it's free, it will take a modest
+amount of effort on your part to read, understand and
+implement what needs to be done to set this up.
+<P>
+<P>If your machine is connected to the internet <B>and</B> you don't
+want to allow your machine to be visible to the outside world you
+should change the "0.0.0.0" to "127.0.0.1" [which is
+"localhost"]. This will then only allow connections from inside your
+machine. As was said earlier: if you aren't running Win9x (or you want
+to use DXTelnet or somesuch), then you need to have the machine
+listening at least to "127.0.0.1" ("0.0.0.0" means <B>all</B> IP
+addresses).
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.2">6.2 The AGW packet engine</A>
+</H2>
-0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('gb7xxx') if unless connected('gb7xxx')
+<P>On the assumption that you'll be using the SV2AGW Packet Engine
+to interface your radios to the cluster, it would be a good idea to
+download the Packet Engine software! You can get this software from:
+<P>
+<A HREF="http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/agwpe.zip">http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/agwpe.zip</A><P>Depending upon your TNCs, you may also need to get:
+<P>
+<A HREF="http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/drivers.zip">http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/drivers.zip</A><P>A couple of the tools:
+<P>
+<A HREF="http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/agwterm.zip">http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/agwterm.zip</A><P>
+<A HREF="http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/agwmonitor.zip">http://www.raag.org/sv2agw/agwmonitor.zip</A><P>will also help with troubleshooting of the RF links themselves.
+<P>Install and configure AGWPE. You should now create your own local copy of
+AGWConnect.pm by:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+copy c:\spider\perl\AGWConnect.pm
+c:\spider\local\AGWConnect.pm
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>and then
<P>
-<P>The callsign involved will be the callsign of the cluster node you are
-going to connect to. This will now check every 10 minutes to see if
-gb7xxx is connected, if it is then nothing will be done. If it is not,
-then a connect attempt will be started.
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+notepad AGWConnect.pm
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>to bring up an editor window containing the file. You must
+consider adjusting the following items in AGWConnect.pm:-
<P>
-<P>There are probably lots of other things you could use this crontab file for.
-If you want to know more about it, look at the
-<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/cron.html">DXSpider</A> website
-at the cron page where it is explained more fully.
+<UL>
+<LI>$enable - set to '1' to enable AGWPE interface </LI>
+<LI>$login - the login ID you chose when you set up the SV2AGW security :-)</LI>
+<LI>$passwd - password that matches $login</LI>
+</UL>
+<P>The login ID and passwd only need to be set if you are accessing AGW separately
+via its web interface. This interface is normally not needed for use with DXSpider.
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.3">6.3 Setting up the initial user files</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>Next you need to create the initial user files, etc. A tool is
+supplied which will do this for you. To run the tool:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+cd \spider\perl
+perl create_sysop.pl
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>If all goes according to plan, you will see no output from this
+program, and after a brief wait, your DOS prompt will be
+returned.
+<P>Depending on how brave you are, you might now care to try the
+following:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+perl cluster.pl
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>If you did everything you were told, your DOS window will now
+hold a display which looks something like:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.50
+Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
+loading prefixes ...
+loading band data ...
+loading user file system ...
+starting listeners ...
+Internal port: localhost 27754
+load badwords: Ok
+reading in duplicate spot and WWV info ...
+reading existing message headers ...
+load badmsg: Ok
+load forward: Ok
+load swop: Ok
+@msg = 0 before delete
+@msg = 0 after delete
+reading cron jobs ...v cron: reading /spider/cmd/crontab
+cron: adding 1 0 * * 0
+DXUser::export("$main::data/user_asc")
+reading database descriptors ...
+doing local initialisation ...
+orft we jolly well go ...
+queue msg (0)
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>Now, if that's what you've got, you are very nearly home and dry
+(in as far as these particular experiments are concerned, anyhow)
+<P>If you are running Windows 9x you can access your new cluster (from
+the local machine) by finding yourself another "DOS box" and doing the
+following:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+cd \spider\perl
+perl winclient.pl
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>If you are running Windows NT, 2000 or XP then winclient.pl does not
+work. We don't know why other than this seems to be some kind of
+incomaptibility in perl. You can achieve the same thing by telnetting
+to the port you defined in Listeners.pm (7300 as default), thus:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+Menu->Start->Run
+telnet localhost 7300
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>On getting the <B>login:</B> prompt, enter your sysop callsign (the one you
+put in DXVars.pm as $myalias).
+<P>
+<P>I would recommend <B>strongly</B> that you obtain a better telnet
+client than that which comes with windows (I use
+<A HREF="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html">PuTTY</A>).
+<P>
+<P>Anyway, if you are rewarded with a display which looks something like:-
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+Hello Iain, this is GB7SJP in Amersham, Bucks running DXSpider V1.50
+Cluster: 1 nodes, 1 local / 1 total users Max users 2 Uptime 0 00:00
+M0ADI de GB7SJP 4-Mar-2001 1511Z >
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>You've arrived. Try some commands, and see how they feel. (In
+case you were wondering, "Iain", "M0ADI" and "GB7SJP" all came
+from the version of DXVars.pm that was on the machine when I
+started the winclient.pl)
+<P>
+<P>The interface is very basic. It is a simple command line. There are
+better looking interfaces. Most of the "standard" logging and DX
+Cluster access programs that are capable of connecting via a TCP or
+telnet connection will work as a "Sysop Console" client. You connect
+to "localhost" on the port that you defined in Listeners.pm (usually
+7300). I recommend packages like
+<A HREF="http://www.qsl.net/wd4ngb/telnet.htm">DXTelnet</A>.
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.4">6.4 Connecting to other clusters</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>If you want to connect this to another cluster, then you'll want to
+negotiate a link with someone. For experimental purposes, I'm happy to
+allow folk to connect to GB7DXA (spud.ath.cx), on the understanding
+that the system may or may not be there and may or may not be
+connected to anything particularly useful at any given moment. Contact
+me by
+<A HREF="mailto:g0rdi@blacksheep.org">Email</A> if you
+want me to set up a connection for you.
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