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<TITLE>The DXSpider Installation Manual v1.47: Microsoft Windows Installation</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="s4">4. Microsoft Windows Installation</A></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 Introduction</A>
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</H2>
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<P><B>IMPORTANT:</B>
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<P>What you'll be left with once you've followed these instructions
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is (hopefully) a working DX Spider v1.47 system that is capable
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of accepting or originating "internet" connections, plus inbound
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AX.25 and TCP/IP radio connections. If the absence of outbound
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radio connections is a serious limitation for you, it would be
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better for you to wait a couple more weeks until this support has
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been added.
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<P>On the other hand, you may have an enquiring mind, or better yet,
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may be looking for a useful way of connecting your current
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(perhaps) AK1A cluster "to the internet" via some networking
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mechanism (BPQEther, etc) or other. I won't be producing
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instructions for the latter case, because I don't have an AK1A to
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play with. But someone might ...
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<P>Whatever, this document is intended to get you started with DX
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Spider in a Microsoft Windows ™ environment. It's not
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intended to teach you anything other than how to perform a
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minimum configuration of a DX Spider installation and have it
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able to connect across "the internet" to other DX Clusters, while
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accepting inbound TELNET and radio connections.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.2">4.2 The requirements</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The very first things you're going to need are (in order of
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importance):-
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<P>
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<UL>
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<LI>A cup of good, strong tea</LI>
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<LI>A supported Windows platform with an internet connection so you can
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download the necessary software bits and bobs directly to it. There are other ways, but this is preferable.</LI>
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<LI>Another cup of good, strong tea</LI>
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<LI>If all goes according to plan, about an hour to spare</LI>
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<LI>Plenty of good, strong tea</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.3">4.3 The system</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The platform I used to generate these instructions was a
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"vanilla" Microsoft Windows Me 4.90.3000 system, with a 700MHz
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AMD Athlon processor and 96 Mb memory. I've also personally
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verified that it runs on my laptop (Pentium 266MHz, 32 Mb memory,
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Windows 98 SE v4.10.2222 A) and a computer that I assembled from
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a random pile of junk (AMD K6-2 333MHz, 64 Mb memory, Windows 98
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v4.10.1998). As a result, I have reason to believe that what I'm
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about to describe will perform equally on any 32-bit MS Windows
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environment with 32 Mb of memory.
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<P>Because of the changes that have recently been made to the core
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"cluster.pl" module and the introduction of a very lightweight
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"winclient.pl", I have a sneaking suspicion that this will now
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run on any platform that has reasonably complete support for
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Perl. Is there someone out there with both an enquiring mind and
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(say) a Macintosh, for instance?
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<P>Please bear in mind, though, that my instructions relate solely
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to how to get this going under a Microsoft Windows environment,
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and I have zero intention of trying to make them say otherwise.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.4">4.4 Perl</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Install your chosen Perl environment. Unless you have a very good
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reason for not doing so, I strongly suggest that you use
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ActivePerl v5.6. For my testing & development, I used build 623.
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You can get this from:-
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<A HREF="http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html">http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html</A><P>You will need to choose either the MSI or the AS package. My
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recommendation is that you choose the MSI package and deal with
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the consequences if your system isn't equipped with support for
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the latest MS Installer; you'll be better off in the long run.
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The build 623 download is 7,460 KB, so now is a really good time
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to have some tea if you're on a slow dial-up connection.
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<P>During installation, please ensure that you do choose the options
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to "Add Perl to the PATH environment variable" and "Create Perl
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file extension association"; it will make your life so much
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easier. Once the installation is finished, be sure to reboot your
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PC. You probably won't be told anywhere else that this needs to
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be done now, but it does. Really.
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<P>Once you've rebooted, open a "DOS box" (Start > Run > command
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might do it, if you can't find it elsewhere) and from wherever it
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lands, type PERL -v <ENTER> (it's better if that's a lower-case
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'v', because an upper-case 'V' means something else. You should
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be rewarded with some interesting information about your Perl
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installation. If you're not, you must go back to the beginning
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and discover what went wrong and fix it. It's pointless to
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proceed unless this simple check is passed. Assuming it did work,
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you may now move on.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.5">4.5 Additional packages</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Some extensions ("packages") need to be added to the base Perl
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distribution, and we'll do this next. If you're using the Perl I
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recommended, and don't know any better for yourself, then just
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blindly following these instructions will work just fine. If that
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didn't describe you, then you're on your own.
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<P>Visit the following URL:
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<A HREF="http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/">http://www.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/6xx-builds-only/</A><P>and download the following files:-
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<P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
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<PRE>
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Data-Dumper.zip
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Net-Telnet.zip
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TimeDate.zip
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Time-HiRes.zip
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DB_File.zip
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</PRE>
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</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>Make yourself a convenient directory to unpack all of these zip
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files into (I put mine in "D:\ppm>") and do the following (the
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bits you type in are blue ). Note that where these files land
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will be directly related to where you chose to install your
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ActivePerl (mine, as you can probably guess from what follows,
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went into "D:\Perl"):-
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<P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
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<PRE>
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D:\ppm>ppm install Data-Dumper.ppd
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Installing package 'Data-Dumper.ppd'
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Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.bs
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Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.dll
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Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.exp
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Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.lib
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Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.html
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Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Data\Dumper\Dumper.pm
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Writing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.packlist
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D:\ppm>
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</PRE>
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</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>I'm not going to bother you with exhaustive details of the rest
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of them, but suffice it to say you need to:
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<P>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
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<PRE>
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ppm install DB_File.ppd
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ppm install Net-Telnet.ppd
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ppm install TimeDate.ppd
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ppm install Time-HiRes.ppd
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</PRE>
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</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>If all that seemed to work OK, time to move along. Before anyone
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who is familiar with PPM tells me that we didn't need to download
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and keep those files locally, I knew that. I also knew that PPM
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is sometimes awkward to configure via firewalls, and that
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sometimes the repositories don't always work the way we'd hope. I
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do it that way because it suits me.
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.6">4.6 Getting Spider</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Get the current version of the DX Spider distribution. This needs
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to be v1.47 or later. You've got two ways (currently) of getting
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this; either get a CVS update from sourceforge (if you don't know
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what this is, then it isn't for you) or get my package from:-
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<P>
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<A HREF="http://www.dcc.rsgb.org/WinSpider.zip">http://www.dcc.rsgb.org/WinSpider.zip</A><P>or if you want the lastest CVS version (which is produced every night)
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<P>
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<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz">http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz</A><P>If you went down the CVS route, then everything will be nicely
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set out on your local disk. If you got the ZIP file, unpack it to
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somewhere convenient. The following examples assume that you put
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it on drive "C:\", for convenience.
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<P><B>NOTE:</B> This distribution method will go away as soon as the first
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v1.47 tarball is released. You can use WinZip to unpack that, and
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my life will be made easier by not needing to keep this .ZIP file
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updated.
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