Linda Proulx wrote in a message to All:

 LP> If I wanted to Telent or FTP would Netscape do it for me? If
 LP> not what kind of programs would I need?

For Telenet I use a freeware program called Mtelnet.  It does NOT require
VMODEM, nor netscape.  It requires you are connected to the internet with
whatever internet dialer you are using, either DOIP which comes with OS/2 or
INJOY, which is a shareware OS/2 dialer.  These are the two most used dialers
I imagine.  If you use VMODEM, which is an app that comes with a registered
copy of SIO, you can use any COM program to telenet on the internet.  I've
done both, and use MTEL, it's simple, and does what I want.

For FTP, there are a ton of 3rd party OS/2 FTP apps out there, I use NCFTP
myself, but not often, I mostly connect my browser to the FASTFTP sight and it 
searches the internet quickly for any file I want, and a click on one of the
files listed gets the file for me using the browser.  This is too easy to be
bothered with FTP.  About the only reason I use FTP is on very large files
that I want to be sure I have crash protection (meaning if something goes
wrong after 3 hours of D/L, I can resume where I left off)  This has not
happened to me personally though, so even that is iffy, but you never know. 
Most of the 3rd party FTP programs have crash recovery and is, I presume, why
people use them.  Neither my ISP nor my OS/2 system ever drops carrier on me,
so about all I worry about is a power failure.

                                              Jack 
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