Re: Use //c to show ftp weather from Bureau of Meteorology

[lyricalnanoha@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)]

Warren Ernst wrote:
> Over the years, I have been keeping track of ways to hook up one of my
> various Apple IIs to the Internet by simply connecting it via a serial
> port directly to a PC or Mac and essentially making the Apple a dumb
> terminal.
> 
> In your case, assuming you connect your Apple to a computer that has
> the command-line tools to FTP, telnet, IRC, Lynx, and such, then you
> can use your Apple II on the Internet in all sorts of ways.

Depending on how good a terminal emulator you got you could use ncftp
instead of ftp, links instead of lynx, and irssi instead of ircii/epic.

Apple Access // has some compatibility issues, some of which are resolved by
using screen.  It's the best program I've used so far though.

-uso.