Hello Linda,

09 Nov 99 20:05, Linda Proulx wrote to All:

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

Netscape can FTP but not telnet. OS/2 Warp comes with a telnet client in the
bonuspack.

Netscape is a pig, and I think it would run less or more jerky on a slow
system (especially with less than 16 MB RAM).

There are many other programs that do FTP or telnet:

FTP: various programs, including some mirror programs (like wget, which is I'm 
using, I've written batch .cmd files and REXX files to run wget automatically
when a connection to internet is made, wget is free)

telnet client: ZOC (telecommunications program), vmodem (part of the SIO
package, SIO is a high performance replacement to the standard OS/2 COM
drivers, is higly recommended and is shareware).

I'm curius, why bother with FTP and telnet if you don't have internet access?
Or do you plan to have internet access?

FTP and telnet were originally written for Unix to connect and/or retrieve
information and/or files from other Unix systems connected in a network.
Because internet is a big worldwide network, FTP and telnet will work via
internet. Only if you are connected to internet you can use FTP and/or telnet
(or use the local loop, but if it's only for yourself then that's most of the
time not usefull).

FTP = File Transport Protocol

telnet looks like an contraction to telenetwork, but I'm just guessing this
and I don't know this.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

... Warp 4 Scotty, and close those damned Windows!
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