Re: GNO Question

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

ray_lee@athena.mit.edu (Yueh Z Lee) writes:

>I have a few quick questions which I can't seem to find in the GNO faq...
>and nobody on comp.sys.apple2.gno seems to want to answer.

>	Is it possible to connect my beloved GS to a network of some type?
>(besides appletalk) 

  Nothing is currently available commercially. I presume you refer
to TCP/IP & Ethernet.

>I want to know if there is a network card that is
>made for the gs... or if you can use the SCSI port for that. I know MAC's
>have a networking type thing that uses the SCSI port. Is it possible to do
>a similar thing with the GS?

  Apple had an Ethernet card for the II, but the project was cancelled
just after completion of the board.

>	And, if it is possible, what is the availability of the mail, readnews,
>telnet, and ftp softwares?

  There are a number of options here. There's Brian Tao's MuGS, which
can handle email and news (and James Brookes is working on what is effectively
a slick GUI version of the 'elm' reader). MuGS (and presumably the Brookes
program) come with a modem-based email & news transport system to
get info off a Unix box and into your II.

  Telnet and FTP will be forthcoming with the release of GS/TCP, which
is still in development. It's getting very close to being done, though,
and will support any Internet utility anyone cares to write, over
SLIP and MacIP (TCP over AppleTalk).

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