Re: Communications software for Apple IIGS

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"Jack Somers" <jsomers@unlinfo.unl.edu> wrote:

>I am looking for some communications software to use on an Apple IIGS I
>recently purchased.
>
>There is no Apple II user group in my area.

Sounds like you are looking for Spectrum Internet Suite.  Take a look
at the following URL and information that Joe Kohn provided:

http://www.myesource.com/sevenhills/applesoftware/iigs/sis/sis.htm
 

         New Features & Improvements in Spectrum Internet Suite 1.1
 
     * Control-Double-Click in the Browser Window provides information on
       the item selected:
          + Link shows the full URL and optionally save the Web link's
            content to disk
          + Graphic icon shows the full URL
          + Anywhere else on a page brings up a new Document Information
            window
     * Conforms to the HTML 4.0 security issues:
          + Provide warning if sending data by email
          + Provide warning if sending data insecurely
     * Support more Network architectures:
          + Delphi customers
          + VAX/VMS users
          + AIX UNIX and equivalent environments
          + Debian LINUX and equivalent environments
     * More Network Access:
          + Netscape cookie support
          + HTTP 1.1 Proxy Authentication
     * "Single Click Internet Search":
          + New toolbar button takes you to an Internet Search home page
          + Internet Search home page can be customized in the
            Preferences
     * Included Bookmark Editor featuring:
          + Sorting, editing, copying, cutting, pasting, and creating
            bookmarks
          + Imports Lynx 2.6 and newer Netscape (to 4.x) and Mac Internet
            Explorer (to 4.x) Bookmark files
          + Imports links from any HTML based file including Lynx 2.5 and
            earlier bookmarks files
     * Email and related enhancements
          + Accepts all valid Internet standard (RFC 822) email addresses
          + Include a signature file as part of your email messages
          + Supports Netscape's 'mailto:' URL enhancements
          + Send Web Page Location via Email for others to view
          + Spell check messages with NiftySpell (distributed by
            Shareware Solutions)
     * Preference options use a modern index-file tabbed page interface
     * Bookmark menu can now have dividers
     * Browse directories of all disks, including local GS/OS networked
       drives
     * Cached Web pages won't be read from disk if they have expired
     * Compatible with Spectrum's 2.2 telnet ability
     * Interface updated to conform to the latest Apple Human Interface
       Guidelines
     * Several speed optimizations--pages retrieve faster!
     * Numerous HTML display fixes
     * Year 2000 compliant (until February 2040, the IIGS toolbox date
       limit)
     * Many "behind the scene" enhancements
     * Over one hundred bug fixes