In a message of 14 Aug 96 Dave Freeman wrote to me:

 DF> Well, after a few weeks of virtually no traffic at all I got the
 DF> princely total of 89 messages today.  Not much but better than the one
 DF> or two per day that I've been seeing lately.  Have my routine posts
 DF> like AmiNet Daily been getting out?  Mind you, looking at the date on
 DF> this message I'm replying to I suspect there's been a breakdown of some
 DF> sort somewhere.  Perhaps it will recover now?  Anything's possible.

Well, your message only took 4 days to get here and the Aminet Daily's are
getting through.  I've been averaging about 12-15 messages a day in this
area so there is definitely a problem somewhere up your way.

 DF> Yeah, but even that may be a stretch for a little while yet.  Got to
 DF> plan ahead for a big rural trade show out here next month.  Myself and
 DF> a local computer dealer are sharing a stand there.

Shows can be a lot of fun.  I've been on a stand at every WOC show in
Sydney plus I work at various garden shows.  You soon get to know the
people to run away from.  ;-)

Will you be supporting the Amiga on your stand?

 DF> While that may help it's probably not of critical importance.  To be
 DF> honest, for the last week or two I really haven't had much time to do
 DF> more than routine BBS maintenance on the Amiga.  The linux and Win95
 DF> machines have been taking up much of my time...

I know the feeling.  I now use my IBuM more than the Amiga.  In fact, I
only use the Amiga for Fido mail and playing BRE.  

 DW>> This is true.  And I'm still looking for a decent Dopus for the IBuM, 
 DW>> So far the best is a shareware program called File Plus.

 DF> I haven't even tried to find one.  I make do with Explorer for what
 DF> little file maintenance I feel the need to do on the Win95 machine (and
 DF> use Midnight Commander for the linux stuff when I need something of
 DF> that sort).

Take a look at File Plus or File Magician.  The former is a Dopus clone and
the latter a Diskmaster clone.  Neither are as good as the originals
though.  I can attach them to an email if you like.

 DF> Oh, just an aside in case some of my messages haven't been getting
 DF> out...  the AUST_AMIGA web pages are up and running as:

 DF> http://www.gla.com.au/aust_amiga/index.html

I'll have a look-see tonight.  Assuming my ISP doesn't crash again, that is.

 DF> and I'm looking for people to provide images of themselves, home page
 DF> URL's, good Amiga-related URLs and general feedback on the site.  Have
 DF> a look at the pages and you'll get the idea.

I found a good Link page recently with heaps of Amiga links.  Hassle is
I've got so many darned URL's in my Bookmarks that I can't remember which
is which!  Anyway, when I sort them out, I'll post a list in here.

 DF> Oh, and what's the state of play on Amiga web browsers?  What level of
 DF> HTML do they support these days?

They aren't really in the same league as Netscape yet.  I've only had a
brief look at them (the Amiga programs, that is) so far.  I will set the
Amiga up for Internet as a backup.  I have AmiTCP up and running so the
rest should be easy.  In fact, I'll also set Emplant up with the Mac
Internet software.

Catchya

... All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
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