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Frequently Asked Questions


Q : Can icons be added to those already used (as seen within the toolbox)?

A : Yes - the TOOLS_LO.RSC and TOOLS_HI.RSC files may be edited to add additional icons.

Q : Can the subject be changed when replying to messages?

A : No, this is not allowed according to the RFC's.

Q : What causes error OASIS FILE ERROR I:/OASIS2/NEWS/ARTICLES, and how can it be corrected?

A : Try re-indexing the news group, sometimes the index gets corrupted by drive fragmentation from a lot of unbatching and expiring. If this fails, Wipe the group.

Q : What do OASIS and ICE stand for, and what are they?

A : OASIS = One Atari System Internet Software. OASIS is the front end and shell for the internet access system and had the following modules support within it: email, news, and WWW (when Spider is completed), etc. Message support covers standard mail as well as full MIME tools for email.

ICE = Internet Connection Extension. ICE is the online part of the package and the part that dials your provider, sends/receives mail and news, runs ftp, the local ftp server, telnet, etc.

ICE_NET is the set-up and configuration program for the suite of programs.

Q : How much is the registration fee for Oasis2 and ICE?

A : The registration fee is œ30 pounds sterling and gives a lifetimes registration for OASISx, ICE, ICE_NET, and SPIDER. Registration fees should be sent to:


     Mr P. Yeadon 
     29 Bolton Street, 
     Reddish, 
     Stockport, 
     Cheshire, 
     SK5 6BE, 
     England 

Q : Overseas registration sites, do they exist?

A :

Q : What connection / mail protocols does ICE support?

A : ICE currently supports SLIP and PPP

Q : If the email files get corrupted, how can this be fixed?

A : Delete the relevant .MIX file from the mail directory and when post is selected the email will be reindexed.

Q : I know that 'X-' reference lines may be added to the top of a message manually to access things like Anon servers, but how can these be added if for multi-part binary file transfers? Is it possible?

A :

Q : Why does my USR Sporster Vi not respond to the dialer?

A : For some reason the Sportster switches to numeric result codes when accessed by ICE. Use ATZATV1 as your init string and it will solve the problem.

Q : Can dialogs be added in to OASIS2/ICE to support setting of the following to allow fine tuning?

attach asy AUX: 0 ppp sl0 32767 1500  110
ip ttl 64
tcp mss 1460
tcp window 11680
tcp irtt 3000
tcp syndata on
ppp sl0 lcp local mru 1500
ppp sl0 lcp remote mru 1500
ppp sl0 lcp local accm 0x000a0000

A : PPP is an unusual system in that during configuration you define to the remote site how you want the packets to be sent. Whilst this negotiation is being carried out there is a simultaneous negotiation of what form & size the packets required by the service provider are to be. This generates a protocol in which what one side can send it cannot decode.


attach asy AUX: 0 ppp sl0 32767 1500  110
This is an internal setting for NOS and is irrelevant to ICE.

ip ttl 64
Time to live is suppoorted in internal & external packet life. The internal packet life is for packets which are sent to addresses which have the same two numbers at the start of the address as the user. External packet life is for all other packets. The values for these are settable inside ICE-NET.

tcp mss 1460
The maximum segment size is equivalent to the packet size set in ICE_NET. Any size between 512 and 1948 are supported by ICE. the default values in ICE-NET are for ease set to 512, 1024 & 1536.

tcp window 11680
ICE supports a window of unacknowledged packets of upto 4 times the packet size.

tcp irtt 3000
tcp syndata on
Currently ICE works to the RFC definition of TCP/IP these values must be covered in ICE if necessary to a working system. My understanding of the NOS configuration lines does not cover these two.

ppp sl0 lcp local mru 1500
ICE defaults to a local MRU of 1524 bytes although the incorporation of the PPP packets size in ICE-NET will be complete prior to release of 1.03.

ppp sl0 lcp remote mru 1500
The remote MRU size is negotiated with the service provider during configuration of PPP. ICE supports any value that the provider requests. The size defaults to 1500 if not negotiated.

ppp sl0 lcp local accm 0x000a0000
The ACCM is the list of escaped characters required by the system below character 32. ICE does not require any character to be escaped and therefore requires no ACCM. If the remote site ( Service provider ) requires an ACCM this is supported by ICE on request by the service provider during negotiation.
( Dave )


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