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  Rhapsodi <Rhapsodi@scara.demon.co.uk> said:-

>Hey all you Atari users out there :)
>
>My brother needs some help. He has an ATARI 520 ST and wishes to 
>connect it up to demon. Can anyone advise me on how he should go about 
>this and what software is required, where he can get it etc or even if 
>I can be of any help downloading stuff from the net onto my PC then 
>transferring it?

He will need at least 1Mb of memory, preferably more, and a hard disk. 
At a push he may get away with floppies but he will be extremely 
limited in space for news and emails.

Use a DD disk in the PC and format to 720K (80 track, 9 sectors per 
track, double sided). The ST can read and write to that. Try to avoid 
using a HD disk, they ten to be unreliable. A newer ST can format to 
PC standard, older ones can't (actually it's the PC at fault but 
that's another story).

>This question has probably been asked a millenium amount of times so if 
>theres an faq somewhere can someone tell me where I can get it? 

Assuming he has the required hardware then you ought to be looking for 
a package called OASIS135 which iirc is available from ftp.demon.co.uk 
as well as umich and hensa.

Post again if you get the package. One of the configuration files 
(startup.nos) is badly out of date and you will need a copy of 
someone's more recent one unless you or he has intimate knowledge of 
the PC Ka9q package.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk