Re: Almost There!

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@syndicomm.com>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:07:16 -0400, "Bill Garber"
<willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

>Ok, I have Lynx 2.8.4p5 up and running, and STerm up and running.
>I have Spectrum 2.2 on the IIgs with Spectrum SHR as my display,
>and the STerm prompt on screen. Now where do I go and what do I do.
>Would appreciate a bit of assistance or a good place to download some
>docs that explain. Don't have a link to lynx on the Apple yet.

Well, you don't actually need Lynx set up on your own system unless
you also want to set up a telnet server so that you can use STerm to
allow your Apple II, which is already connected to your PC via a null
modem, to be able to telnet from your PC to your PC.  :-)

What you want to do is, once you get the STerm command line on your
Apple II, type in:

     telnet guest.sailor.lib.md.us

That site will tell you to log in as "guest" and you will then have
access to the version of Lynx that they are running.  I'm sure there
are other sites that allow this out there too but this is one I've
seen mentioned before.

I just tested that site and it does work but I didn't think to try the
download option that Lynx gives you.  I believe it should allow you to
download graphics and files using one of the regular file transfer
protocols (Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem, et al) but I imagine it would be
fairly slow if it does work.

Oh, one more thing, when you log in it will ask you what terminal type
you are using.  You need to make sure that the terminal type you tell
their system and the terminal type your communications program on the
Apple II is using are both set to the same thing.  VT100 is usually a
good choice unless you are using a IIgs where you can get programs
that support colour ANSI which is nice.

However, this brings up another point.  If you are using ProTERM you
may want to change some of the settings so that links will be
highlighted (inversed) and underlined or bold text won't be displayed
differently than regular text.  There might be more to this but I'm
just going from memory of posts or articles I've read in the past
about using Lynx with ProTERM.

Have fun!  :-)

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