| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I know you readers are probably getting sick of hearing this but here
it goes anyway. Having recently purchased an AMIGA 2000 I am very
interested in getting some of the public domain software available. I have
found the location of the programs but have some questions.
1. Exactly what hardware/software is needed to download these programs?
2. I have read about the compression programs but don't know the exact
steps to use them. Could someone give me a simple explanation?
(ie. a sample of how you would download and decompress something)
Some help would be much appreciated.
thanks,
paul
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| 4816.1 | modem, vt100 to start | SALEM::LEIMBERGER | Wed Jun 12 1991 06:36 | 17 | |
Your Right! Most of us are sick and tired about hearing this. However
in an effort to help I can offer this advice. All you need is a Modem
a communications package,and copies of ARC,LHARC,and ZOO or whatever
other compression program was used to cpmpact the file. All these are
available on this net,and have been discussed intensely in this notes
file. There are too many compression formats now available to give a
tutorial on this now. But the info on downloading, and such is all here
for the looking,and the compression files have documentation,and most
often command line help(type program name no argument to see help).
Just do a serach for "Downloading" and you will get many of your
questions answered. If you find a program for communications you like
but can't get it installed (need it to download,but of course you may
not have the ability to download until you get program) then let us
know and we will try to get a disk to you to get you started. You could
get VT100 from a user group,or dealer near you. Use that to get started
and then build on that.
bill
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| 4816.2 | Thanks | TROA09::TONIZZO | Wed Jun 12 1991 10:08 | 6 | |
Many thanks Bill
Paul
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| 4816.3 | No Problem! | KAHUNA::SUMNER | Wed Jun 12 1991 10:58 | 8 | |
Paul,
I had the same question a few months ago when I got my system. A
person on the net was nice enough to send me the software I needed.
So, if you still need the software I'll be glad to send it to you.
~Ray
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| 4816.4 | Look for "New User:" | MLRTYM::TERELLA | Mike Terella DTN 287-3083 CTC2-1/C14 | Wed Jun 12 1991 13:16 | 6 |
You may also want to search through the last 2500 notes or so for anything with "new user" in the title. These topics typically deal with downloading issues. -Mike | |||||