                                                HOW to BOTE*
 
                                               was written by
                                   Tony Martin and G. M. Raymond
                                       Members: Bote Beta Team

Last Update: Feburary 2nd, 1998


Although it is our intent to help make using and understanding Bote as easy 
as possible for the first time users, let me assure you that Bote (German for 
Messenger) is a very very powerful, multi featured, Internet communications 
tool and not to be taken lightly.

Lets begin by covering the main features of Bote for Windows 95.  You can 
think of Bote as a very simple, yet highly versatile PC Pager for users 
connected to the Internet utilizing tcp/ip. 

Bote can cause a message, in several formats, to popup on the remote's 
(other persons) terminal screen.

Bote can quietly determine if any remote Bote user is presently online and 
do it without disturbing them.

Bote can move folders (directories) and files between any two 
Bote users on the Internet.  This is known as peer to peer or direct connect
(DC) between users.  Bote employs all the latest drag and drop file
and folder functions.

Bote can initiate peer to peer, real time, on-line Chatting between any 
number of pairs of Bote users.

It is not even necessary for the other user to be running Bote. Bote can 
send e-mail to any user (with a valid e-mail address) utilizing your 
Internet Provider's SMTP server (simplified mail transport protocol). 

Non Bote user can even communicate with Bote through any standard
Telnet client that can be set to port #54637 

Bote can help facilitate your obtaining, and directly using, a static, 
never changing URL to make contacting with other users a snap.  This is 
equivalent to having a static or never changing IP address on the 
Internet. A static IP is something most ISP's would normally charge extra 
for.  Of course, Bote can also communicate DC using dynamic IP's (Internet 
Postal numbers) when they are previously exchanged. 

For those uninterested in obtaining a fixed or static URL, Bote can use 
its own built in SMTP e-mail client to both notify another users of your 
current dynamic IP and retrieve (scan) his IP from your conventional pop3 
mail server.

Bote can save the chat dialog or popup messages to a log file for
future reference.

Bote gives you total control of Chat fonts, window colors, size and 
position.

Bote has an address book for storing contact information with an automatic 
capture feature.

Bote can allow you to run your very own mini web page directly from your 
own PC.  This is sometimes called a WEB server or WEB Daemon.

Bote has several methods for getting the attention of a local or remote 
user.  Bote can play local wave files (changeable) and flash its windows 
and Icons.

Bote has a comprehensive "feature" based HELP pointer system.  Click on 
the Question mark (?) then drag it to a feature you want help on, and there it 
is the help.

Bote has a user definable signature file that can selectively be
appended to Bote Messages, PopNotes or E-mail.

Bote can be linked to from within a home page on the WEB
using a special hypertext tag..

Bote can be activated and addressed to special users from your Desktop. 

If you are not excited and ready to start using Bote right now, check for a
pulse.  I sure hope something bad has not happened to you  :-)




                                           Bote out of the Box


One of the more difficult things for a novice and Bote newbie to 
understand is what power means in terms of programming.  Power means doing 
the job the fastest and best way possible, with the least number of bytes 
in the executable program, and using the least number of cycles of the 
processor.  Bote beats out all the competition with its rich set of 
features, size and performance.  

FACT:  Bote is under a half megabyte (now only 240k+- of code.

FACT:  Bote comes with no custom DLL baggage.

FACT:  Bote does nothing to the Windows registry files.

FACT:  Bote is a FULLY functional shareware program.

FACT:  Bote is totally secure.  Its sends no stealth data.



                                           Bote Installation


Bote comes in a conventional ZIPped archive.  Create a new Folder or use 
any existing Folder (directory) on any drive of your choice.  It is highly 
recommended that you place Bote in a folder of its own.  You can name the 
new folder anything you like.  Make it a name you can easily remember 
(like BOTE14).  Next, move the zip archive file into that Folder and 
unpack (or unZIP) its contents there. 

David Binette suggest:  \program files\dbsoft\bote

All that is necessary now is to create an Icon to run it.  Before I 
proceed with these instructions, you power users will undoubtedly want to 
run Bote in Invisible mode or from the toolbox.  I will cover the details 
for doing that with the /v command line switches later in this dialog.

Here is a quick and easy way to create a new Folder and or a Shortcut for 
Bote, directly from your desktop.  Right click anywhere on an open or 
clear spot on your desktop (monitor screen).  A small menu pops up.  
Choose "New", then "Folder", then give the newly created Folder a name.  I 
suggest naming it something like "Net Clients".  Repeat that same step 
again except choose "Shortcut" this time rather than Folder.  Next, Browse 
to the folder/directory where you moved and unzipped bote.  Now choose 
BOTE.EXE.  Next step,  name the shortcut anything you like.  Voila!  A 
fresh new Bote Icon appears on your desktop.  Now you can drag and drop it 
into the desktop Folder you previously created.  Later, as you collect 
other Internet clients, you can drop them all into the same desktop Folder 
for quick easy access.

To gain access to this new desktop Folder, double click on it. It will 
open exposing your newly created Bote Icon or Shortcut inside.  Double 
click on the new Bote Icon and Bote will load and run, presenting a 
message from the author reminding everyone to honor the shareware 
obligation.  This message cannot be considered a nag message
because it only appears the first three time you run Bote.

After running the first time, and by default, Bote will create a typical 
initialization file (called bote.ini) in the c:\windows directory.  All of 
your setup choices will be stored in this file.  For more advanced users, 
the default directory location of this INI file can be redetermined through 
the use of  a command line switch "/i".  More on this later in the 
advanced user chapter.




                           Understanding Bote's Main Menu


The main Bote Window consist of SEVEN major buttons, two large and five 
somewhat smaller.  Starting from the top, the first big button does 
several things depending on how the DYNdns function is set up.  For one, 
it gives the host or network name of your terminal, your current net URL 
or verbose address and finally its equivalent IP address.  If you single 
click this button it will open the DYNdns window.  If DYNdns is set to 
Automatic in Setup/DYNdns, and you have been connected to the Internet for 
a minute or two, this window will indicate success or failure of Bote in 
registering your dynamic IP with Monolith (the free DNS server).  If 
DYNdns is only activated, you will have the manual option of pressing the 
Activate DYNdns registration function button.

The second big button down is the Talk Button.  This brings up the Open 
New Connection window.  To some extent this is equivalent to Bote's 
cockpit, after it has been properly set up.  In other words, most of your 
operations will be initiated from this one Menu and its accompanying text 
edit window.  Because there are so many options here, this Window will be 
discussed in greater detail further down in the Using Bote section. 

The Third Button causes Bote's Message log file to display.  This
file contains both recent and historical text messages sent to Bote
by remote partners.  This file 

The Fourth button causes Bote's main log file to display.  This file 
serves the purpose of recording (user selected) activities that you might 
want a log record of.  Menu selections include view filtering as
well as Editing vi Notepad or a favorite user definable Editor vi
the SET EDITOR=C:\XYZEDIT.EXE command that can be added
to the DOS autoexec.bat file. 

The Fifth button down gives access to the Setup or user defined
options Menu.  This too will be discussed in exact detail further
down in the Using Bote section.

The Sixth button is perhaps the simplest of them all.  It is basically a 
Bote information display window.  The top area gives tcp/ip socket 
information, then Bote client data, then IP information about your current 
Internet connection.  Finally, there are three horizontal and rectangular 
buttons that, when pressed, give Registration information (the same as you 
saw when you ran Bote for the first three times); a Mailto link that 
should open your default E-Mail client, and a third button that should 
load and run your default Web Browser, taking you directly to David 
Binette's Bote support Web page.

Finally, the Seventh button.  This button suspends CHAT requests, 
effectively puts Bote to sleep so that it will not answer chat calls until 
to tell it to do so.  This button indicates Bote is either accepting Chat 
calls or it isn't and is a toggle.  It does not effect either web or 
popnotes or messages.



                                           Setting up Bote


We are going to cover the Setup Menu first; its options and choices.

Alerts:
Bote has several methods of alerting you to what action is in progress.  

1) Bote can play sound (standard wav) files.

2) Pop up the specific activity Windows.

3) Flash those Windows, or any combination of the above.  

This affects:

Outgoing Calls (those you initiate to other users).
Incoming Chat requests.
Incoming Messages.
Incoming Files.  

In addition to these operations, another option is offered that Blinks the Bote tool tray 
or Tool bar Icons.

Client:

Show your name to the other user:  Shows your host name if one is defined.

TCPnodelay:  Disables or enables the TCP Nagle algorithm.  Best results
for slow connections is to enable.

Autosend on dropped files:  If you drag and drop a file or folder onto the 
chat or Open New Connection Window, file will be transmitted without 
further confirmation.

Verify personal calls:  This is an interesting and powerful function.  It 
accomplishes two things.  First it insures that the specific party you 
are calling actually is answering your call. Interestingly, this feature 
can also be used to determine if a remote Bote user has Bote active and 
ready to operate.  You do this by calling a remote user with a fake user 
name like UglyGorila@david.sce.de  The remote will respond with the real 
users name.  You will get a message asking if you want to connect with 
this person.  You say no.  They never know you inquired and you now know 
they are on line.

Always announce connection delivery status:  If checked, this option
will announce when the remote server has been successfully contacted
by your request to chat or send a Popup/Message.  It is best left
unchecked.

Text Wrap:  Your text, Partners text, PopNotes:  For the most part,
I think all users enjoy having word wrap turned on.

DYNdns:

The first two boxes are pre loaded with the current Monolith Host server 
and URL registration path.  No attempt should be made to change these 
unless changes occur at Monolith.

The DYNdns button is a toggle allowing three states. Off or Disabled, 
Activate and Automatic.  If you are going to take advantages of the 
benefits of a static URL, you will no doubt toggle this button to fully 
Automatic.

Finally, you must enter the DYN Host Domain name you previously registered 
with Monolith.  This name prefixes the domain DYN.ML.ORG So, if your host 
domain name choice was LURKER, your complete URL will then become 
lurker.dyn.ml.org

In addition to entering the domain host name, you will have to enter your 
MID (Monolith IDentification name you picked) and the numeric serial 
number that was e-mailed to you by Monolith after initial registration.

When a user enters some ones new fixed URL, tcp/ip sends it out to Monoliths 
DNS server where it is resolved into your recently registered IP.  The DNS 
server reports back the IP number, which Bote (or any Internet client) can 
then use to actually complete the addressing of outgoing packets to assure 
they reach their destination.


Email:  

Here you may first enter either your real name or a nickname. This 
is followed by your e-mail address, then the URL of your providers SMTP 
server and incoming POP3 server (usually both the same).  Finally, you 
must enter the userid and password that you were assigned (or requested) 
by your provider.

The last check box (if checked) allows the remote to see your e-mail 
address. This is handy for sending messages when the remote is off
line because you can use the simple mail ability.


Files:

Show user Name when calling:  Good idea to check this.

Auto accept File List:  If you know and trust who is sending, check this.

Minimize on send:  Leave this unchecked as a way to confirm files are 
starting to move.

Close on Disconnect: Leave this unchecked unless you have good reason not 
to do so.

Default d/l path:  This is VERY useful.  Decide where you want your newly 
downloaded files to go.  Example:  D:\TONY\DOWNLOADS\

File transfer Buffer Size: Defaults to 1024 but 4096 is ok on fast connections.

Disconnect after X seconds: Default is 600.  Leave it at that.


HTTP:

Answer an HTTP request:  Checking this activates Bote as a web server.

Include HTTP headers in Log File:  this adds additional technical data to log.

Redirect incoming WWW to:  Put a link to another web site here until you
get your own page written.

File to give web caller:  This overides any linked file that may be in your Bote
web page.

Image to give web caller:  This overrides any linked Image (gif/jpg) that may
be listed in yout Bote html file.

Zip to give web caller:  This overides any linked downloadable file that may
be linked in your Bote web page.

Reset HIT Counter:  Will reset your page Hit counter.

Edit Web page:  Will load your Bote web page into Notepad for Editing.



Messages: 

Autoindent Popnotes:  Cause first keystroke in PopUp window to indent 
previously received text.

Keep Popnotes in File:  You can select a directory path and file name.

Save messages to file:  You can select a directory path and file name.



Logs:


Logging:  All, Chat, Files, HTTP, Messages, Popnotes     Self explanatory

Save Message Log to File:  You can select a directory path and file name.

Limit Log to Display X lines:  Self explanatory

Edit Log file:  Loads your defined message log file into Notepad.


Replies:

Enter default outgoing message:  The greeting that every message starts with.


Enter Short replies 1,2 and 3:  You have a choice (x) of picking any one of 
these three comments as the one that should be sent when you dont 
answer and it times out.

Define Signature file:  Select path and file name

Edit Signature File:  Loads sig file into Windows Notepad.

Select where it will be used: Messages, PopNotes, E-Mail



Servers:

Show users name to callers:  Shows the name you used to log into your terminal.
Or, its default name or if none, then NoLoginName.

Accept incoming Messages:  Self explanatory

Accept incoming Popnotes:    Self explanatory

Accept incoming Chat:            Self explanatory

Accept incoming Files:           Self explanatory

Allow Sending of Files:           Self explanatory

Hide Bote Icon in Toolbox:     Self explanatory

No Shutdown:  enable or disable Close Bote option.

Disconnect after 120 seconds:


Wigglers:

Warns when something has changed and needs
to be Accepted and Saved.


                                     Operating your Bote




OPEN NEW CONNECTION Window:

This Window is where you start most activity with Bote..  

In many cases the Buttons in this Window are greyed out until a) text is 
entered into the Subject window OR the cursor is placed inside the Subject 
window. b) a correctly formatted address is entered into the To: box; such 
as including a "+" sign preceeding an email address.

The "Open New Connection" window  is comprised of the following components:

Four top buttons:

Recent Calls:

Bote will store the last sixteen addresses you made connections to within 
an area of the BOTE.INI file.  This info can be retrieved from this button.

Mailbox:

This button will scan your ISP's pop3 server for any un retrieved messages 
that might contain an X-Bote IP header.  It does not "remove" or "delete" 
any X-Bote mail it finds on your providers smtp server.  This mail will 
still eventually be delivered when you use your regular client to check for 
e-mail.

Address Book:

Bote can manually store and capture incoming addresses to a Bote address 
book that you can specify in the Setup/Log area.  This Button allows you to
scan that address book for a specific address you saved.

Folder button:

This button opens the Address book data entry window.  You will
note that within this window only ONE entry item is mandatory,
the Remote PC (URL or domain name) for another Bote user.  Currently
the only other caveat is that Quotes are required around the e-mail
name but this is likely to change in a later release.

To: window

This window can be automatically filled from the "Recent" or "Address 
book" buttons. In any case, to Chat, send a Popup Note or Bote Message, it 
requires a legitimate domain name (like a URL from Monolith or an IP 
number. To send a conventional E-mail, an email address proceeded by a + 
(plus) sign is required.  Or, for any of the above:  a proper, fully 
formatted Bote address consisting of 

user/domain/email name/email address.

Example:  LordBeta@yoda1.dyn.ml.org+"arc"<arc@bigfoot.com>


The "Subject" text edit box:

The default message you previously entered into Setup/Messages will always 
appear here.  Text will not wrap in the raw Subject window.  However, you 
have a tiny Edit button on the upper right corner of this window.  This 
button will open Notepad (or your favorite text editor if you have defined 
a "SET EDITOR=C:\XYZEDIT.EXE statement in the DOS autoexec.bat file).  
This facilitates importing large text files or editing or creating large 
messages, including text wrap if your editor supports it.


Five bottom buttons:

Chat:

Sends out request to chat.

Message:

Sends out the text in "Subject" window as a Bote Message.  This message is 
equivalent to Bote's own e-mail.  It is received by a remote and 
automatically stored in the remote's Bote log file and therefore can be retrieved 
by the operator for later perusal.

Popnote:

Sends the "Subject" message as a Popup Note on remote's desktop.
More on the Popup window down below.

Email:

Will contact your ISP's smtp server and post whatever message is in
the Subject box to whoever is listed in the To: box. Current size limit,
32k.

DynaPost:

Sends a specially formatted e-mail with X-Bote header containing
your current dynamic IP to the user specified in the To: box.

SPECIAL NOTE:  If activated in Setup - Files & Client, you can drag
and drop files into the Subject window for uploading.



POPUP Note Window:

When this window appears, its because someone cared enough about you to 
send a message.  There are several ways to handle an arriving Popnote.

You can ignore and Close it,  do a Quick Reply, or a regular Reply and or 
do a "Save to File"  that you can specify.  Why would you want to save a 
Popup note you ask?, because  it might contains something important you 
want to keep a record of.  Future Popup text saves will also append to 
this same file if you use the same file name.

Ctrl-S  Save popnote to a text file.

Ctrl-Q will also toggle a Quick reply.  The primary advantage of doing 
this is to save time.  Also, a quick reply will not confirm delivery, only 
a delivery problem.

Remember: Using Ctrl-Q requires that you type a reply into the Popup 
window "before" pressing Ctrl-Q

Ctrr-R will reopen the "Open New Connection" Window allowing for some 
degree of flexibility in choices of what to do next.  Any text in the popup 
window will be automatically echoed into the Subject window here.  You
can further add or delete text.  This option will cause a message sent
confirmation to appear on your desktop.

Ctrl-I will indent all text with a cheveron ">"

Ctrl-RtShift-I will remove one cheveron from text.

Alt-I will delete oldest indented text.

Ctrl-W  Word wrap.  If word wrap is toggled ON, a vertical scroll bar will 
appear to the right of the Popup window.  If toggled OFF, the scroll bar 
will disappear.

CHAT Window:

Reminder: F1 will bring up small help notes here.

SPECIAL NOTE:  If activated in Setup - Files & Client, you can drag
and drop files into the Host Chat window for uploading.

Top Area:  Local host types their comments. The text and 
background colors are inverted when host disconnects.

Bottom Area: Remote user's replies are viewed by host. The text and 
background colors are inverted when remote disconnects.



Top Menu Choices:

Top Menu: File

Send/File/Directorie (self explanatory)
Disconnect:  end chat session (does Not Close Chat Window) but X
will disconnect and Close.

Top Menu: Edit

Copy - same as Ctrl-C
Paste - same as Ctrl-V
Select all - same as Ctrl-A

Top Menu: Options

Sub options:  SavePosition 
Will save both the chat windows current size and desktop location.

Sub options: Local

Sub sub Local: ClearScreen
self explanatory

Sub sub Local: Font
Changes font and font color.  If you have poor eyes, try Arial Black, 
Regular, black color (with Cyan background).

Sub sub Local: Background
Changes background pane color to suit your taste.

Sub sub Local: Wrap
self explanatory

Sub sub Local: Save to File  
After a chat session ends, you can save the entire transcription to a text 
(ascii)  file of your choice.

Options: Remote:  
Same as "Local" except for an "Echo" toggle (in case the remotes client 
cannot provide their own local echo).


Top Chat Menu: Clients:

View Address Book (sell explanatory)

Visit Web: load your default Browser and view your "chat partners" web site
(if he one was defined and or activated).

View Call time:  your time on line with this Chat session



                                   Advanced User features


Command line switches:

/v0  normal

/v1  hide in tool bar

/v2   go to toolbox

/t      start with "Open New Connection" open.

/i      place bote.ini anywhere you want it.

SET EDITOR=C:\XYZEDIT.EXE

When placed in the DOS autoexec.bat file, this will overide Bote from running 
W95's Notepad and cause your favorite text editor to load.


You can also add telnet links inside your e-mail. This works with Eudora 
and many other popular mail clients.

Link example:

telnet://yoda1.dyn.ml.org:54637



                                           Hidden Power Features

You can now create simple text files called "anyname"+.bot to be placed on 
your desktop.  The first line must contain a fully qualified Bote address. 
The following lines may contain any (simple?) message.  An "Association" 
must be established within w95 connecting the extension .bot to the main 
executable, bote.exe  Now, by double clicking on any of these .bot file 
Icons, the "Make New Connection" Bote window will pop up ready for 
execution.

Additionally, web pages may now contain links to Bote.  The HTML
Tag syntax is:  <a href="anyname.bot"> Message Me with Bote</A>

A remote "non Bote" user can still communicate with a Bote client using a 
simple TELNET client like that provided with every copy of Windows 95.  A 
quick and simple method for doing this is to click on the w95 Start and 
Run buttons.  With the Run dialog box open, type in:

"telnet URL/DOMAIN/IP 54637"      (less quotes).

Naturally you replace URL/DOMAIN/IP with whatever is
appropriate.

You can even include Telnet links in web pages and e-mail.
Example syntax for a www page:

You can reach me<a href="telnet://yoda1.dyn.ml.org:54637"> HERE </A>now. 

the syntax to include a telnet link in an email message would be:

"telnet://yoda1.dyn.ml.org:54637" (less quotes)

The F1 key will invoke Help in most Bote windows.

Ctrl-G will make a tic noise in the host and remote's PC internal speaker.

Ctrl-A  will Select All in most text windows.

Small button above right of text window in "Open New Connection"
will Clear screen.

ESC in chat window will test the connection the delay in the resulting 
*tic* sound shows you how long it takes for a character to travel to your 
chat partner and back to you.




*Bote is a fully copy(c)righted 1998 creation of David Binette.

If you need free technical assistance to set up or use Bote, the following 
volunteers are available online for immediate assistance.  These are all 
volunteers from David Binette's Bote Beta testing group; please treat them 
with courtesy and consideration.

NOTICE:  It is not necessary to have Bote up and running to contact anyone 
on this team of Bote volunteers.

You can simply Telnet into their Bote daemon by going to the Windows 95 
Start Button, then Run, then type in the following:  telnet URL 54637

Example: telnet yoda1.dyn.ml.org 54637

This will run the telnet app that came with W95 and connect you to the URL 
you specified.  Hint:  first go to Terminal option and TURN on local echo 
and maybe change color background to something easy on the eyes.

Tony Martin
yoda1.dyn.ml.org

Gary Raymond
gmr.dyn.ml.org

Ted Buckley
bigbuddha.dyn.ml.org

Dune Raymond
vader1.dyn.ml.org

If you wish to become a member of the Bote Beta Team contact the author, 
David Binette vi e-mail at:  dbin@sce.de 


                                     Dynamic IP Tutorial

Your IP is a unique number.  While you are logged onto the Net, you and 
only you (in Theory) have that address.  The IP consist of a four byte 
number that ranges in decimal value from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255   This 
opens the possibility to 4,294,967,295 simultaneous users, or over four 
billion.

Whenever you log onto the Internet, your provider has two options. He can 
give you an ever changing Internet Postal address, known as an IP, or he 
can give you a static IP which never changes.

In the early days of the internet, IP addresses were plentiful and static 
IP's were commonly issued.

Now, with ever increasing growth, resources are getting scarce.

Typically an ISP may have 500 customers, using 100 phone lines and only 
128 IP addresses to assign to its customers.  Obviously with 500 accounts
everyone cannot have individual IP's.  So, the IP's are pooled and reissued
dynamically as each user disconnects and a new user connects.

So, the bottom line is that the majority of all Internet users are assigned 
dynamic IP's.   This makes it awkward, but not impossible, to use clients 
that can communicate across the Internet using Peer to Peer or Direct 
Connect (also knows as DC) clients.  

Take some Internet Telephone clients for an example.  The better ones 
connect DC.  But before you can actually connect with your partner, you 
need to know his IP.  This is typically exchanged by conventional e-mail.  
Incidentally, if you want to know your IP, go to the W95 Start button, Run 
command and type in:  "C:\WINDOWS\WINIPCFG.EXE" or just "WINIPCFG" might 
work (less quotes).

Of course you could just look at the main Bote window :-)  

Now, lets talk about the difference between an IP and a URL (or verbose 
address). 

Typically a WEB browser uses URL's  (URL stands for Universal Resource 
Locator).  The idea was that a verbose address composed of human words 
would be much easier to relate to (as in a snail postal address) than 
would a four byte number.  Anyway, that was the original thinking.

So, what happens when you punch in a URL?  Before your client can  find 
what you are looking for, it needs to convert (or RESOLVE) that URL into 
the true IP that it is indexed to (or matched with).  This is the job of 
servers called Domain Name Servers or DNS's.  Each provider is required by 
Internet rules to have a primary and a secondary DNS.  However, aside from 
typically poorly performing e-mail servers, an ISP's DNS machines are 
probably THE biggest bottleneck in quickly resolving URL's.  For this 
reason, many power users elect to plug the IP's of outside DNS servers 
that never go down, and or, super fast (like those of ATT's Worldnet as an 
example - try 204.127.129.1).  Once the URL is resolved, the DNS returns 
the IP to your client which can then in turn connect to the outside or 
remote destination.

Enter the GOOD guys at Monolith DNS:  They are presently offering
a FREE URL/DNS service to people hampered with dynamic IP's.

Now, to use this service, you must first sign up with Monolith for a FREE 
URL at:

http://members.ml.org/signup/

They will then e-mail back a confirmation with your chosen MID (Monolith 
ID) and numeric password. With these two things you can to the following:

NOTE: This is a very important step with using Monolith's free DNS 
service.  You MUST register your desired hostname (i.e. budda etc) before 
the Bote DYNdns automatic feature will work.  

Logon again to Monolith's web site at http://members.ml.org

Click on LOGIN

Enter MID (userid) and numeric password.

Now click "Logon" to the ML Network Info Center.
next page

Scroll to "What Shall we Do"

and Click on /dyndns participate
next page

Click on "New Host"
next page

Click on "Add to Dyndns"
next page

Give your desired hostname (budda ?)
and your current IP
then
Bullet "I have read and agree"
then
click on "Modify Database"

The hostname you choose will now be registered (meaning YOU own it at 
Monolith) and you can edit or change it later if or when you desire.  If 
the hostname you choose is already taken, you will be suggested an 
alternative to accept like BUDDA1.

Within Bote/Setup/DYNdns, you enter the userid you chose and that 
password, plus "budda" or whatever your choice of domain url handle will 
be.  Bote will auto register your current IP with Monolith so when someone 
trying to contact you using a Direct Connect client (such as Iphone or 
Bote) they never need to know your IP.  They only need to know your URL.

Happy Bote ing.










