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 In article <882404869wnr@kiss100.demon.co.uk>
  Andy Howard <andy@kiss100.demon.co.uk> said:-

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>I do hope this is the right group, if not please excuse me.
>
>My flatmate wants to use her Atari 1040 ST online. "No Problem" I replied, 
>remembering some software for that on ftp.demon.
>
>So off I went and found the directory that had the startup package in it. Unfortunately it 
>is some 900k in a self extracting archive and her machine only has 720k drives.
>
>So can some kind soul advise as to which individual files I will need to get her online?  
>Any pointers to an idiot's guide to setting up would be excellent too since I know next to 
>nothing about STs.
>
>Ta...

Try downloading Oasis, the archive is only a bit over 500K. I had the same
problem when I started out so I got all the bits and pieces of the DEmon acces
software to build my set up and never got it to work on a system without a harddrive or a big (>2Mb) ramdisk
which is not possible with a 1Mb machine. Oasis on the other hand is relatively
easy to set up and will just about run in a 1Mb ST. I found that you need a
small ramdisk installed as drive C: for the temporary files that NOS writes
when it is active as floppies are too slow. Don't expect to be able to handle
more than a few newsgroups at once!

Hope this helps, email me If you get stuck.

Gary.      
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