Some advice on a comms program sought

[jim@magrathea.plus.com (Jim)]

Hi. I've decided to dust off one of my Apple 2s (a //e) and use it as a
display screen for my FreeBSD box. It will be essentially showing
whatever is sent at the serial port, hence it's not acting as a terminal
but just a sort of serial screen. A glass printer if you will.

I'm waaaaay out of touch with how things worked on the Apple 2, so I
have some (hopefully simple) questions:

If I'm right, I can use a programme called ATDPro to transfer a disk
image from my PC to my Apple 2, and have it write it to disk. Is this
correct? If so, can anyone recommend a good (free) comms package? Must
be 80col compatible. The idea is I'll be able to boot off the disk and
go quickly into comms mode. As it stands I've got a DOS 3.3 disk and
that's about it, so I'm starting from scratch here.

With regards the 80col bit, you activate it normally with 'PR#3', yes?
If so, could I simply add that to the HELLO programme?

As I say, I'm essentially starting from scratch on the Apple 2, so I may
be getting stuff hilariously wrong.

Many thanks.

Jim
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