Book details of 'OS/2® Warp Internet Connection'

Title	OS/2® Warp Internet Connection
Author(s)	Deborah Morrison
ISBN	1568844654
Language	English
Publisher	Hungry Minds, Inc

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
For a product-specific book, this is not bad at all. Basic Internet concepts are covered without going overboard. Many books mention RFCs (Request For Comment documents), but few present information on how to get them (and which ones to get) in as simple and useful a form. The definition of client/server isn't accurate (it doesn't work for X, for example), but is good enough to be getting on with. IBM wants, of course, to promote its own Internet Connection Service as the Internet provider of choice, and the setup to ICS is the simpler of the two. They may, however, have taken simplicity a bit too far. If the book is correct, there is no provision for a modem initialization string. The directions for the use of other access providers is quite clear, but it states that the IP address assigned to the user is "required." This would create difficulty for providers that use dynamic allocation. The script language for automated calling is not described, although sample scripts appear to be provided in Appendix B. The description of the various applications (Gopher, World Wide Web, email, news, telnet, and ftp) is basically limited to explanations of the interface, although organized in a functional style. Ironically, one of the few exceptions to the "just the interface" tutorial recommends the use of "block files" (apparently directly analogous to the more common kill files) as providing censorship for those with children. There is no indication of any means to prevent said children from removing this "protection." copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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