BKDOSINT.RVW 940308 Prentice Hall 113 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (515) 284-6751 FAX (515) 284-2607 phyllis@prenhall.com 70621.2737@CompuServe.COM Alan Apt Beth Mullen-Hespe beth_hespe@prenhall.com Mortice Kern Systems Inc. 35 King Street North Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 (519) 884-2251 inquiry@mks.com 73260.1043@compuserve.com Fax: (519) 884-8861 "A DOS User's Guide to the Internet", Gardner, 1994, 0-13-106873-3, This title is almost completely misleading. This book is not for DOS users, except that you must be running DOS to run the MKS UUCP for DOS programs for which this book is a manual. This book is also not about the Internet, as such. Both the specifics and the concepts refer to UUCP rather than the Internet. The text of the book does point out that there are differences, but the examples given relate to UUCP. That said, for those who are interested in making their first move to a direct Internet connection, this could be an excellent choice. UUCP was designed to be quite comfortable with dialup connections, and this book, and associated programs, help to automate a number of the connection functions while freeing the user from much of the technical detail that TCP/IP requires. Mail and news are basically the same and file transfer can be explored later when a dedicated connection is available or desirable. Given the author's residence in Canada, the US-centrism of the Internet Provider/Service supplier list is all the more disappointing. In truth, any Internet connected UNIX site should do you. (Perhaps even a fellow DOS user running MKS UUCP.) There could also be a bit more detail on how to configure the remote site, although someone at the remote system should be able to help you. This is not an Internet book: it is a niche market, plug and manual for MKS software. However, given the current interest in the Internet and the limited supply of "plug and play" connectivity solutions, this is worth serious consideration. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKDOSINT.RVW 940303