Re: Shell Applications for Orca?

[treiter@comet.net (Toby Reiter)]

In article <4g7phi$vos@styx.uwa.edu.au>, jturner@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
(Joseph Turner) wrote:

>    hI all, I have a question(actually a few) about ORCA. I noticed that I 
> can run other applications withing orca, that is by simply going to the 
> shell window and running the s165 aplications. Then at the top right , 
> some arrows and a foot print appears. I am wondr\ering what the foot 
> print is supposed to mean. Also, no applications that I have tried run 
> perfectly under this shell...example SHR2.01 makes the screen look 
> strange, and other applications usually make the computer crash into the 
> monitor...REally wierd things happen... So what applications will and 
> won't work under the ORCA shell? I have ORCA2.02. I have 4 megs, and I 
> have usually about 2.5 megs of ram free.... I have tried with more 
> avaialbe, but it does not seem to stop the problems. Also, I have seen a 
> few programs written and sent to binaries.apple2like an RZ/SZ protocol 
> thingy. Is this for some modem program that can be run thru the ORCA 
> shell? Is there any program that helps one use the power of ORCA to 
> connect to the net?  I think I am rambling a bit on here...but basically 
> what I am asking is, what was this RZ/SZ thing used for? Thanks for any 
> help...say, if you know anything interesting that you may think I would 
> like to know about the IIGs, TELL me! I want to learn as much as 
> possible. Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> 
> 
>       Sincerely
> 
>    Joe Turner
One thing you may want to consider is GNO/ME.  It has true multitasking
abilities (as far as I know) and is the real direction if you want good
internet connections (there is even a web browser in the works!).  Anyway,
the price is somewhere around $90, and well worth it, I would say!  You
can still use ORCA within GNO too.
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