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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Downloading problems & software request
Message-ID: <1026@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 16:31:55 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 22 16:31:55 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Nov-86 04:42:33 EST
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1038@husc2.UUCP> grunau@husc2.UUCP (justin grunau) writes:
>
>I just got my new 1040ST, and I was hoping to be able to get all the
>software I have been saving off the net for the past few weeks onto it,
>since so far I am basically rather short on software ...  Well, since the
>only communications program I have is the vt52 emulator and something
>called "shorterm" that came off one of the compute! diskettes, I do not
>have any direct downloading capability.

	Well, one way to get started is to by a low-dollar terminal program
that has x-modem capabilities and then download stuff of the Atari-BBS.
There's on called 'CHAT' by SST systems that goes for about $20 and works
fine for this purpose.  There's quite a bit of software on the BBS that
might be worth looking at.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)