Re: Apple II Email (Network Connections)

[brobstona@wartburg.edu]

In article <54p9se$qnr@crl13.crl.com>, dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail) writes:
>pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
>: That's right!  I forgot that METAL was a telecom programming language.
>: Willow and Kidterm can be programmed on METAL too.
>
>The problem with this is that you would need to be in the METAL runtime
>environment to run any applications written under them.  That in
>itself precludes Willow or KidTerm from being written in such an
>environment.

Why would that prevent Willow or KidTerm from being used? Getting into
the METAL environment isn't that difficult. Basically, you start METAL.
If the teacher had to do this part, all that would be needed is for,
perhaps, some sort of door to be set up that would be Willow or KidTerm.
Have whichever program running all the time as a door. Perhaps, if
necessary, a password would have to be used to quit the program.

At any rate, I don't see why METAL couldn't be used.