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- From: hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI (Heikki Kantola)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: What is the Best way to go Internet on Amiga?
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 14:49:57 GMT
- Organization: Department of General Wizardry, Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork
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- In article <4kvotj$nta@infa.central.susx.ac.uk>,
- kcci1@central.susx.ac.uk (Alan L.M. Buxey) writes:
- >Efrain Gonzalez posted the following:
- >
- >: What is the absolute best and easiest way to get on the internet with the
- >: Amiga. I would like a PPP connection, but how is it done. What Emailer,
- >: newsreader, binaries decoder, telnet app, ftp prgram, and www browser are
- >: the best and most stable/reliable? I love the Amiga, but if I cannot get
- >: Internet Access then I will be forced to leave it. Though I want to
- >: exhaust every possibility first.
- >
- >The package you want is AmiTCP. If you are serious, then get the full
- >commercial version.
-
- And better not forget the alternative commercial TCP/IP stack,
- Inet-225 from Interworks, which is part of the AT Surfer pack too..
-
- >the hardware you want to use is a good modem or ISDN modem.
- >the device you want to use is PPP.device (available from aminet)
- >
- >emailer - VooDoo or Thor (its your choice)
- >newsreader - see above ;-) (they both do this)
-
- No they, don't. Voodoo handles only mail. There's also alternatives
- for Thor, GRn (v2.1 freely available on Aminet, v3.1 comes with
- INet-225 or can be bought separately) and tin (Amiga port of popular
- Unix newsreader) pop into my mind first.
-
- >binaries decoder - see above (ditto ;) )
- >telnet - comes with amitcp (or you can get one from aminet)
- >ftp program - AmFTP
-
- I rather vote for AmiFTP (I luv the ADT-mode, oops, that's only in
- beta versions sofar ;)) or DaFTP96 (demo version available from
- <URL:ftp://ftp.warped.com/pub/amiga/daftp/>).
-
- >WWW Browser - Well, either a free "demo" one - AWeb, AMosaic, IBrowse
- >or get a commercial one - Full version of MindWalker (from AT), IBrowse
- >(from HiSoft) or AWeb (get demo version for details)
-
- Don't forget ALynx! Right, it's text-only, but certainly the most
- stable Amiga WWW browser. The latest version and information can be
- found at <URL:http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/amiga/alynx.html>
-
- >you also want an IRC client - AmIRC or Grapevine and also MUI if you
- >want to use some of the above programs (Amosaic, IBrowse, AmFTP, AmIRC)
-
- But you can easily select to use only non-MUI programs too... ;)
-
- >: What's Commercial? Free? Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- >some are commercial demos, some are shareware. NONE are free.
-
- ALynx is free. :)
-
- --
- Heikki Kantola, Amiga advocate, computer linguistics student at University
- of Helsinki, author of HK Fonts vol.1-7, PC loather, idler extraordinaire,
- IRC addict (Hezu@#Amiga), Mac basher, Unix/X fan and what else?
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