techno stuff

[Dan Bayer]

All the applications that Keith G. mentions are freeware. You can buy a
book called the Internet Starter Kit at most any bookstore (for less than
$30; 3rd edition for Mac is current) and the diskette in the back contains
everything you need to get going. You need at least a 14.4 modem, and to
use the Net from home, you need to be able to establish a PPP
(point-to-point protocol) connection with a modem pool at your school.
Alternatively, commercial services like CompuServe also offer dial-up PPP
access.  Not many schools have such options (they are called Livingston
Boxes) due to financial contraints. But some, like mine, do have.

Secondly, if your office is ethernetted, on a TCP/IP connection, you can
run Netscape, pop mail applications (like Eudora), and others Fetch (FTP),
Internews (Newsreader), etc, from your desktop computer. These are
client/server applications.

Lastly, or those of you who are using a VAX for email and the like, you can
use a text browser for the WWW and access even the AATSEEL program at David
Birnbaum's web site by typing the word LYNX (<--links, get it?) at your
system prompt, which is usually a $ or % or something like that. It will
load a menu driven interface with directions at the bottom of the screen.
<G> will prompt you for the URL, which I forget right now
(http://www.pitt.edu/~djbpitt/aatseel/program_schedule.html???).

Happy Net Surfing.




Dan Bayer, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711
dan_bayer at email.pitzer.edu FAX: 909-621-8793
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dbayer