Notes on Trumpet TCP
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Trumpet TCP (not to be confused with the Trumpet newsreader) is a TSR that
runs on top of a packet driver interface.  There are several applications
supplied that use the TSR:  ftp, telnet, finger, ping, archie, whois, hopchk
(aka traceroute), and something called ichat (presumably similar to Unix
talk, but incompatible).  The Trumpet TCP package is notable in that it
contains the only working DOS archie client I've found, but the other stuff
leaves a bit to be desired.  Trumpet International of Australia, the makers
of all this stuff, claim that Trumpet TCP only works with SLIP and recommend
that you use Slipper or Cslipper with it.  I find that finger, telnet, ping,
archie, and whois work with Etherppp, and that all of those plus ftp work
with Klos PPP or Dospppd.  According to text in the executable
(NTCPDRV.EXE), Trumpet TCP supports both class 1 and class 6.

jpIRC (not included with tcp201.zip, it is elsewhere on my site) is another
program that uses the Trumpet TCP TSR.  jpIRC works much better than most of
the programs included here, though.

The ftp in this package won't work with Etherppp and seems to have trouble
trouble uploading (but not downloading) with Klos PPP.  There are better ftp
clients for DOS available.  The telnet will work but is slow and doesn't
have a very good VT100 emulation; again, there are better clients available. 
whois will only query the military whois server at nic.ddn.mil; you can't
specify rs.internic.net for queries as you can with the whois in the NCSA
Telnet package.  hopchk doesn't seem to work.

The TSR supplies a TCP/IP stack that Trumpet TCP applications can use.  Once
the TSR is configured (via BOOTP, with command-line options, or with DOS
environment variables), the applications generally need no more
configuration.  There are two TSR's here.  tcp201.zip contains TCPDRV.EXE,
and ntcpdrv.zip contains NTCPDRV.EXE.  You should use NTCPDRV.EXE, which is
newer; TCPDRV.EXE is buggy and would not work on my Tandy 1000TL. 
NCTPDRV.EXE does not come with any documentation, but the documentation for
TCPDRV.EXE still applies.

The Trumpet newsreader and IRC are both also available in Trumpet TCP
versions; the versions elsewhere on this site are the packet driver
versions.  The Trumpet TCP versions, if you can get them to work, are not as
good, and I'm leaving them off my site.  If you want them, search archie for
"ircabi.zip" and "newsabi.zip" (or check http://www.trumpet.com.au/).  If
you get them, they do not come with documentation, so you will still need to
get the packet driver versions for the setup and usage instructions.

On Agate with Etherppp or Dospppd at least, no setup is required for this
package.  Just connect with the packet driver and enter the following at the
DOS command line:

    NTCPDRV

No parameters are needed.  NTCPDRV.EXE will get the local IP address,
netmask, and IP addresses of the gateway and nameserver from the packet
driver via BOOTP.  Note, however:  the -ip=bootp command line option is
ignored if you have the IP or MYIP environment variable set.  Since you
generally have to set MYIP to get University of Minnesota applications to
work with dynamic IP, it is probably best to use variables to set up Trumpet
TCP as well.

If you don't have BOOTP (or you have MYIP set), you can set these parameters
on the command line, like so (use your real IP address, netmask, etc., of
course):

    NTCPDRV -ip=127.0.0.1 -netmask=255.255.255.0 -gateway=127.0.0.2
-dns-host=127.0.0.3

(This is all one line - let it wrap at the end.)  It is a good idea to add
"-mss=512 -rwin=512" to the end of that line (and required if you use Frank
Molzahn's SLIP drivers).  "ip" is your machine's IP address, "netmask" is
your provider's netmask, "gateway" is your gateway machine's IP address,
"dns-host" is your nameserver IP address, and "mss" and "rwin" cause shorter
packets to be sent by the gateway and each one to be acknowledged before
another is sent.  An easier way of doing it without BOOTP is to use DOS
environment variables, say by putting the following in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file:

    SET IP=127.0.0.1
    SET NETMASK=255.255.255.0
    SET GATEWAY=127.0.0.2
    SET DNS=127.0.0.3
    SET TIME=127.0.0.2
    SET MSS=512
    SET RWIN=512

Of course, if you have dynamic IP, you will have to set IP and possibly
GATEWAY at connect time rather than in AUTOEXEC.BAT; see my README file.

This is the same as for IRC 1.01 and uses the same environment variables;
IRC 1.01 was written by the same guy who wrote this package.  (FYI, Peter
Tattam also wrote the Trumpet newsreader, the Slipper and Cslipper packet
drivers, and Trumpet Winsock.)  With the environment variables set, you can
just type NTCPDRV to load the driver.  Type the following to unload the
driver when you're done with Trumpet TCP:

    NTCPDRV -u

There is no documentation on the included apps, unfortunately.  With some of
them, you can see the command-line syntax by typing the name of the app
without parameters.  <esc> exits some apps; <control>-C exits others.  FTP2
has some unusual command syntax; type "help" at the "ftp>" prompt to see the
available commands.

The archie client is compiled to use, by default, a server in Australia.  If
you're not in Australia, be a good netizen and use a local server (poor
Aussies' link with the rest of the world is notoriously jammed).  The option
to set the server is -h=<servername>.  Here are some:

    archie.internic.net      (USA - I use this one)
    archie.ans.net           (USA)
    archie.rutgers.edu       (USA)
    archie.funet.fi          (Finland)
    archie.doc.ic.ac.uk      (Great Britain)
    archie.wide.ad.jp        (Japan)
    archie.ncu.edu.tw        (Taiwan)