Minuet should be installed in this directory to work with Bobcat as an
external program, or you will have to change a lot of directory
references.

The Minuet FAQ is at http://www.CompleteIS.com/~cdh/minuet.html

Minuet may be obtained by using Bobcat and connecting to
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/minuet/

Get a self extracting file called minarc18.exe. After extracting , the
various parameters should be inserted in the Setup menus as explained below.

There are three menus you must setup for Minuet as a helper to Bobcat.  The
User menu is the e-mail stuff and should be filled in completely if you
plan to use Minuet for e-mail.

Servers menu needs only a mail and news server address filled in if you are
going to use them. The rest are unimportant as you will be queried for an
address if there is none, when running Minuet manually .  Mail port number
should be 110 for popmail and news port number is normally 119

The network menu is the most important. The only information it receives
from Bobcat is the IP address so that particular entry can be left blank .
However you must fill in the rest in order to run Minuet. I have set up
Minuet to look as if it is part of Bobcat , but in actual fact it is a
complete stand alone program. It runs in a dos shell and only enough of
Bobcat remains in memory to allow returning to the correct spot in Bobcat
when you leave Minuet.  Remember, two alt -x 's will hang up if you are in
Minuet, the first drops you to Bobcat , the second drops to dos after
unloading epppd.

The most important three lines in Network to get right are netmask, gateway
and nameserver. Use the same entries you used in wattcp.cfg If you have
problems with Minuet locking up when you try to set information in the
network menu, do it online. It seems that version 18a needs a packet driver
installed to allow this information to be entered. Or if you want to try
fooling Minuet into thinking it is online, load slipper with this command
<Slippper 0x60>. When you exit Minuet Setup unload slipper with the command
<termin 0x60>, and Minuet will have saved the Setup data properly.

And you should be using version 18a.

Remember that if you are using Minuet it will not work with a proxy server.

The package KEYTAP.ZIP should be unzipped in this directory.  It is a
shareware program that pre types keystrokes and is an example of one way of
running Minuet as an external program to BOBCAT.

Read the file external.htm for more information

Hints for Minuet users from ve3lgs
#1
In the version e-06 and later I have included some search engine forms for
lycos, altavista and dogpile which can be used with Minuet. They were sent 
by John Bullough ( bulloj@ rpi.edu) and are a brilliant solution to the 
lack of Form handling in Minuet. 
#2
Minuet cannot handle unsorted lists of newsgroups and seems to balk
when it reaches its limit. If your provider does not sort his list 
or you get a list that is much shorter than you know the list to be. 
you may still get the entire list with the following trick.   
Use Minuet to telnet to port 119 of your news server. Then use
 alt C to open a log file, type list and get the entire list via telnet.
Then use rpsort to put it into alphabetical order. Move it to
the Minuet newsgrps directory where it should be renamed groups.txt 
so Minuet can use it. It works very well. 
Thanks for the idea to Ralf Mueller.

Happy Browsing.
John , ve3lgs@bigfoot.com