Question: What are DCC and CTCP?

>Try powwow from www.tribal.com. Allows for file transfer and talk
>while you cruise the net. runs in a window.  Both users need to be
>running powwow.

Question: What is a MUD?

A Sampling of Winsock app links (ordered basically alphabetically):

Currently, this is basically a compiled list of program names, I'm still working on descriptions, versions, compatibility, and links. Many of the notes are strictly my own assumptions about the programs, but since this is an online document in development, you all get to see it develop. This (clearly) isn't well organized right now, but will probably at some point be ordered by client type (MAIL/NEWS/WWW/IRC/Other), and due to its enormity, will be broken out to separate sub-pages. Suggestions are welcome. So is assistance.

Technical tips: to go online simply by running their custom config app, set the commandline for the app (usually called Properties in most desktop shells) to include "-c Netcom_PPP" or whatever you've named the connection type to (I have Netcom_PPP, Netcom_CSLIP, etc -- note that the commandline doesn't support a SPACE in the name, so use an underbar when naming).
Also, if you have timeout problems, edit WIN.INI to include the following:

 [TCPIP]
 slipmtu=256
 pppmtu=256
 DNSTimeout=12

Download version 0.20 from the Web:
   * http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt6525c/eppi/epp16_02.zip
     (for 16-bit version of Eudora 3.0 for Windows 3.1)
   * http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt6525c/eppi/epp32_02.zip
     (for 32-bit version of Eudora 3.0 for Windows NT/95)

A third party has produced an applet called "Agent Sig Manager" which randomizes signatures. Someone tells me that this may be for the 32bit version of Agent only, but if you're a user, check it out to be sure.

Question: does anyone know of an NTP (Network Time Protocol) server? I need one in order to run a program called (WinSNTP or TimeSync), which will connect to said server and correct your PC's time.
Answer: Here's some information gleaned from a recent thread on this topic:

Mr. Robert C. Mitchell provides the following server addresses:

 192.5.41.40      tick.usno.navy.mil
 192.5.41.41      tock.usno.navy.mil
 192.5.41.42      galileo.usno.navy.mil  *
 192.5.41.43      tuttle.usno.navy.mil  *
 192.5.41.38      cassini.usno.navy.mil  *
 192.5.41.37      herschel.usno.navy.mil  *
 192.5.41.36      halley.usno.navy.mil  *
 192.5.41.35      newton.usno.navy.mil  *
 128.115.14.96    stp1.llnl.gov  *
 128.115.14.97    clock.llnl.gov
 128.115.14.98    nccfgate.llnl.gov *

"You will also have to choose an offset time. The address that I have for this offset time is: [NTP offset times] However, I tried this morning [ed note: 13 NOV 1995] to sign on and get the offsets for the US and it came up as not an Internet host. So if you or any that reads your update does come up with a current address please let me know."

[editors note: Yup, he's right, the given server doesn't come up as being recognized. I conducted a search for the document and site (in case it was misspelled). Here's what I found:
USNO Network Time Services offers useful information on what it's all about, as well as giving links to some software to use.
CLOCK.TXT at louie
Some NTP paper
snavely WWW Time Server
eecis WWW Time Server
NTP: the Network Time Protocol
These should send anyone on a lengthly web wander]

"Here are the offsets for the US. I played around until I got the right ones:

 Eastern: 300
 Central: 360
 Mountain: 420
 Pacific: 480

I got and checked out TimeSync after starting to compile this information for my FAQ here, and found that it is an insanely easy program to use: After configuring it for your timezone, and a NTP server (which it unfortunatley doesn't provide a list of, nor does it give you a simple directory of timezones -- the only two drawbacks). Aside from shared DLL stuff (for Visual Basic -- stuff which is likely on your disk anyway -- say, from NetCruiser if nothing else), the program is quite small -- only 30K. Click on it, and it connects to the configured NTP server, and changes your clock (all while maintaining itself as a small icon), and once that is done, it closes itself. Essentially, all you do is doubleclick it when you're online, or have whatever app suite you use automatically run it when you go online (if it is supported).

Mr. Hubert Littau provides the following critical bit of information:
"If you try Timesync, you will have a file in the Windows directory called timesync.ini. It needs to have a line as follows:

timehost=

timehost=128.115.14.97

[Timesync]
timehost=128.115.14.97
timezoneoffset=478   #Play around with this number to suit your timezone.
                     #It works with the server given here when accessed
                     #from a location in Pacific time, USA.
usedelay=0           #I don't know what this is for
usedaylight=1        #I suspect this acknowleges that your location uses
                     #daylight savings time at the standard intervals
                     #else usedaylight=0.

Mr. Littau suggests that perhaps you use the given host to get started, then searching the web for other timeservers, lest this one become overloaded, which I agree is a good idea -- and which is part of the reason I collected up a larger sampling of NTP servers). As for the usedelay option, it is apparently intended for keeping your computer generally accurrate, but not exactly accurrate, for whatever reason...