Re: Newbie Help

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3300F56C.1188@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>,
Kathleen Jones  <joneskp@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>Thanks to Nathan Mates, Matt Portune, RTK and many others for your
>informative pages.  I now know that we have rom 01 and 512 K of RAM.

   Given the amount of ram, you're probably going to have to treat
them like fast color Apple //es, etc. Not too big a deal, as there's
tons of software for machines of that caliber.

>I have read eagarly about public domain sites, but I seem to be ftp
>incompetent.  Made lazy by my precious Mac IIci, I have no idea how
>to interpret the cryptic lists I find at these ftp sites.  How do I
>know what to download?

   If you want, look around for Applewriter, which was a very popular
commercial text-based word processor that has been placed in the
public domain by the author. However, you seem to imply (in stuff
quoted below) that you already have Appleworks. Appleworks is a very
fine text-based wordprocessor; I don't know of any public domain
graphical word processors for the Apple II.
   
>It seems that there are some standard decompression programs, but I
>can't seem to find them either.  Will unstuff-it help me in this new
>endeavor?

   Nope. However, you've already found some of my web pages. Go to the
comp.sys.apple2 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) at
http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html section 5.1, 5.3 and
especially 5.11-5.13. Those sections (and to a lesser degree the rest
of the 5.* section) detail what programs you need to unpack 99.9% of
all legitimate Apple II software archives-- Binscii and Shrinkit,
where to get them, and how to get them up and running.

>What about AppleWorks?  Is there any way to get it on-line?

   There were some commercial addons to appleworks that allowed it to
go online. However, those are a bit harder to find nowadays, so you
may want to check out section 10.2 of the FAQ (see URL above) and get
Steve Cavanaugh's $3 modem disk including comm software, decompression
programs, and the like.

Nathan Mates
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