Re: Free Apple // Software!!

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Nathan wrote...

<Asimov stuff clipped>
> 
>    There's also the fact that with gzipped disk images, the programs
> are damn hard to unpack on anything but the emulator-only crowd, but
> that only helps to keep Apple II piracy of crud from asimov down a
> bit.

Well... not *really*... I assume that given the absence of GS/TCP 
SLIP/PPP & browser, most Apple II only (non-emulator) types will
be accessing the web via lynx on a terminal server account.  Therefore,
all one would have to do is download ("d") or print-to-disk the file on
their account, and then "gunzip" whatever files they downloaded.

At that point the files are ready to be sent to the ][ by whatever
protocol they usually use.  it seems to me that since the unzipping
can be done quickly in a fast UNIX environment, it's actually easier
for the non-emulators than it would be if the programs were stored in
a format inacessable from the UNIX O/S.  Wouldn't files archived with
Stuffit actually be "safer"? 

For what its worth.
Shawn