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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple IIGS in Sweden.
Message-ID: <11222@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Oct 89 14:13:49 GMT
References: <1195@kuling.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1195@kuling.UUCP> hb@kuling.UUCP (Erland Lewin) writes:
>Can I use FTP to request GS programs through internet?

If you have access to any true Internet site, it should support the DoD
protocol suite, which includes TCP/IP and FTP.  If you only have access
to the true Internet via a mail relay, then you will have to ask a "list
server" (an electronic-mail address that responds to requests to "GET"
files) to retrieve files from its archives.  There is one such mail
server for the Apple II on BITnet, address LISTSERV@BROWNVM.BITNET
which will respond to mail containing the message "INDEX APPLE2-L" by
returning to you a list of available Apple II files.  You can then have
desired files sent to you by sending commands "GET APPLE2-L yy-nnnnn" to
the list server, where "yy-nnnnn" is replaced by the numbers shown in
the file listing.

>Are Apple documents such as tech-notes and file type information available
>in this way? Which sites carry this information?

I don't know how many of the technical notes are archived in the BITnet
file server.  If you have true Internet support, you can use "anonymous
FTP" (FTP connection where you supply "anonymous" as the user name and
"guest", or your own name, as the password) to APPLE.COM.  On APPLE.COM
the "pub/dts" subdirectory contains the files you want.

>Could you point out the advantages of being an APDA member?

It's the only way for most people to obtain drafts of forthcoming Apple
manuals, APW and other software.

>What is the current connection between CALL-APPLE and APDA?

There isn't any.