Re: www on Apple II logged onto Unix BBS?

[lurch@eskimo.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

(Romeo Bartlett) writes:

<>>... you may freely substitute the word Mosaic or even NetScape.
<>I downloaded netscape for my mac at work, because I saw an article in 
<>MACUser that said that it could be used over a 14.4 modem connection.  
<>However, when I run the program, an error appears, indicating that it's
<>not online, form which I infer that it expects to be already connected
<>when it's run.  I cannot find any "dialing" menu or anything of that sort.
<>My internet account is a shell account on my university computer (HP9000)
<>Can anyone tell me _if_ I can use netscape through this account, and if
<>so, how it's  done? 
<     With a Mac you need to get Apple's MacTCP/IP. With a dos box you can get 
<shareware, trumpet, TCP/IP to run it. We have a HP9000 here and it is nice but 
<you basicly need your own IP address and such to be able to WebSurf.

I think you need SLIP or PPP software too.. at least, _I_ do