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In <TB1153.93Jan24175105@thor.albany.edu>, BEIDEL TIMOTHY writes:

>1. What cable should be used to connect the 25-pin "modem" port
>   to the external Hayes-compatible modem?

Just a standard RS232C one.

>2. Is there shareware that can enable him to emulate a VT100
>   and use Kermit protocol?

Yup, Uniterm, available on 
chsun.chuug.ch    /archive/software/atari/Uniterm/
 any probs, contact the author  poole@chuug.ch

Or CoNNect available on
atari.archive.umich.edu  /atari/Telecomm/         USA
or ftp.uni-kl.de  /pub/atari/Telecom/             Germany
 the author is for this is here, he reads this newsgroup.

>3. Where to find good shareware.

  anon ftp site             (problems? contact)
----------------------    ----------------------------
atari.archive.umich.edu  (weiner@atari.archive.umich.edu)   USA 
ftp.tu-clausthal.de      (BWWL@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de   )   Germany

atari.archive is mirrored in the UK somewhere, can't remember the
 name off hand though.

>He has a double-sided 3.5 inch disk drive, which I assume is 720K.
>A user in the Netherlands tells me that the machine could probably
>read IBM formatted disks (since I will have to download it and
>get it to him somehow).

That is true.  For him to format it, depending on which version of 
 TOS in his ST he has, he may need to use a special format program,
 on other ST's, just format from the desktop.  If it's formatted on
 the IBM then passed onto the ST it will be read in no problems at all.

 Craig.

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