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From: mas@ulysses.att.com (Michael A. Schoen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Please Help Me!!!!!
Summary: I need a lot of help (and will provide a clearing house for info)
Message-ID: <13084@ulysses.att.com>
Date: 8 Jun 90 14:31:04 GMT
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I am new to both netnews and Mac telecommunications (I got my modem yesterday)
and am in need of answers to a lot of questions.  The clearing house bit
in the summary means this: I think that there may be a lot of people who
want the answers to the questions I am asking - so, if anyone with any answers
could e-mail them to me, and anyone with a similar question could e-mail that
to me, I would be happy to forward all the information.

Just so that everyone knows the situation: I am using a
Prometheus ProModem 2400G and MAcKNOWLEDGE 1.02a software.  I have both
BinHex 5.0 and the stuffit set.  If necessary I will be willing to get other
software (hopefully shareware; poor student (:-) )  For unix, I have an
account with ATT and at Harvard (by the way, if anyone gets their mail returned
to them, please try sending it to schoen2@husc8.harvard.edu because I need it
badly - thanx).  

Ok.  Now for the fun part -->

a) Are there any local mac BBSs in central NJ (South River, New Brunswick)?
Also, any reccomendations on CompuServe vs. GEnie vs. Delphi?  I have an
account on CIS, but that doesn't mean that its worthwhile to use it.

b) Exactly how does one go about getting software from the archives on sumex?
I tried 'ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu', and got a host unreachable message.
I know that the host is not unreachable, because I could get to the login level
with 'itelnet sumex-aim.stanford.edu'.  Please give full instructions on how
to use ftp (along with other good mac ftp sites)

c) how can i transfer text files from my account at att to my mac?  I have a 
dial-in access number.

d) how can i get the comp.mac.binaries files to be usuable.  I assume that
first I would transfer the text to my mac, but then what???


Thank you in advance.

Michael A. Schoen
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill  <-- Provided for identification only

mas@ulysses.homer.att.com

or (if needed) schoen2@husc8.harvard.edu