Re: ftp client

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Joe Kohn writes ...
> 
> In comp.sys.apple2 Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> >  The snag may be having a good way to connect to your local ISP-- i.e. a
> > "dialer" program that works practically anywhere without special
> > arrangements, etc..
> 
> It's called Marinetti, and it's a TCP/IP stack for the IIGS. It's
> freeware, the source is open source, it supports SLIP and PPP, it's been
> available for quite a few years, and there's been Marinetti-aware
> software released for ftp, e-mail, telnet, ping, finger, chat, and for
> AOL's Instant Messaging.
> 
> For that matter, Spectrum Internet Suite (a IIGS web browser) really
> benefits from TCP/IP's error correction, when used after establishing a
> TCP/IP connection with Marinetti to the net, and then Telnet'ing to the
> ISP.
> 
 ....

     Thanks for the info. Isn't Marinetti limited to connecting with just
certain ISP's which still support special connection options?

     Suppose a IIgs user has the telecom program Spectrum, the SAFE ftp client
stuff, and the current version of Marinetti.

     Can the IIgs user connect with and log onto any standard ISP and start the
ftp client and connect to, say, Ground in approximately the same way that a PC
user can connect from the Windows desktop by clicking a Dialer and starting an
ftp client like Ws_FTP?



Rubywand