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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Modem software for Amiga 2000 - Recommendations????
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 20:49:08 GMT
- Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI
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- On 07-Jan-96 18:39:54, Hugh Campbell <at559@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
- > A friend of mine is a non-computer type who has purchased an
- >Amiga 2000 for his professional work as an animator. I want him to get
- >connected to the Internet, BBS'es, etc, but I have no idea about the Amiga
- >so don't know what shareware/freeware/commercial comm software is available.
- >He has a modem I gave him, but how does he get the Amiga to talk to it?
- >Is there comm software built in to the system? Is there any simple freeware
- >available that he can use, just to get going so that he can start downloading
- >etc and decide for himself what he wants?
-
- > I only know OS/2, so I am lost on the AMIGA (though I must say that
- >all the frequent posts in the OS/2 groups to "the Amiga did that ten years
- >ago" seem to be fairly on point, from a 5 minute inspection of his system.
-
- > Any help gratefully appreciated. Preferrably, can you E-mail me
- >at
-
- >at559@Freenet.Carleton.Ca
- >since for obvious reasons I don't check this newsgroup too often.
-
- The Amiga OS doesn't currently include comm software, though lots of machines
- were sold with some. There are a lot of good freeware programs around.
-
- Assuming that you get some sort of comm program, it is pretty easy to setup
- almost any of them and just go. The 2000 has only one serial port, which makes
- it pretty easy.
-
- If your friend's system is using at least version 2.1 of the OS, it will havee
- the CrossDOS software installed to allow reading and writing of MSDOS format
- disks, which would make it easy enough for you to fetch things for him.
-
- For FTP, the Amiga is supported by a group of systems collectively called
- aminet, which archive a lot of freeware with an identical structure. Comms
- software is in pub/aminet/comm/term (I think).
-
- ftp.wustl.edu is a good US aminet site.
-
-
-
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