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Re: Getting an A3010 net-connected. (A plea for help.)

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From: Dave Santorum
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 00:00
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In article <3537f964.15329917@news.demon.co.uk>, Paul
<URL:mailto:paul@nospam.zero-g.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:17:23 +0100, Glenn Richards wrote these words:

> >
> >Acornet.
> >
> >Just download Acornet from a BBS, FTP site etc, dearchive it and run it.

> Getting it from a BBS is a "chicken and egg" situation: if I haven't
> got any comms software, I can't download any comms software ;-)
> I guess I'll have to d/l it in chunks to my PC.

Paul,

probably a good investment would be !connector.
It's an excellent freeware BBs terminal emulator available from:
http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~topdog/AMZ-SOFT.html
It's excellent. very good. lovely.

and make sure you have SparkFS or similar on the acorn to read the archives.
(from http://www.pilling.demon.co.uk/ , or is it dpilling?)

Good luck
-- 
daves@crespo.demon.co.uk
FUTURES MADE & TOLD!!
http://www.crespo.demon.co.uk/
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From: Dave Santorum <davesH@ESspam.crespo.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Getting an A3010 net-connected. (A plea for help.)
Date: 1998/04/18
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