At 19:43 -0700 on 06/07/01, Sionnach Aisling wrote:

>I've read the FAQ section regarding transfering files
>from pee cee to Mac, however, I want to set at least
>one of my Macs up for web browsing and email...  I am
>currently hooked up to the net via cable modem from my
>main pee cee.  That pee cee is running a proxy server
>to share the connection with a few laptops I have
>kicking around.  Can I simply assign one of the Macs
>an IP address and connect it to the hub?  If I assign
>it a gateway IP to the proxy server (I'm assuming I
>need to do this... again, forgive me, I come from a
>pee cee world) will it send network traffic as it
>should to that address and so on, or will a conflict
>of some kind pop up since the proxy server is pee cee
>based?  Perhaps I should put in a router and share the
>connection that way???  What do you all think?

A router will work, but if you already have a peecee set up to do that, you
might as well not spend the money on a router and just give the Mac a
static IP, which will work fine.

>much detail as I'm sure I'll figure it out) exactly
>what is Hypercard???  I have it on both of my Macs and

It's sort of a self-contained version of the WWW.  Hyperlinks - links that,
when clicked, would take you somewhere else - were *not* Tim Berners-Lee's
doing :)

Play around with it a bit and you'll get an idea of what it can do.

p
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