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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
Message-ID: <4264.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 9 Jun 91 09:03:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.044840.1404@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun8.074935.781@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun8.084126.3287@news.iastate.edu>,<1991Jun8.150550.21859@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu>
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Quoted from <1991Jun9.005806.18799@news.iastate.edu> by taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett):
> it.  The Amiga has all of the technical stuff to support networks, yes,
> but no actual applications geared toward networking.

    Isn't the meat and potatoes of networking access to files on other
    machines?

    Where the important thing is that applications DON'T have to do
    special things to get at data across the network?

> Amiga FTP site.  However, there are no applications available to make a
> network of Amigas truly usable.

    Where I work, the network is used as a means of having lots of
    people access the same files. There are no applications with extras
    specifically for networking, except email (which does exist on the
    Ami).

>  / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   
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