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5.3 How do you download files off the net?

This is important because once you're on the internet, most of the
files are available only on 'ftp' and www sites. ('ftp' stands for
File Transfer Protocol, and www stands for the World Wide Web, but all
you need to know is where to get Apple II files from. See the section
above for a list of ftp sites.)

1. (For ProLine users) Get files to your host
1. Dial up your host and log in.
2. I'm not familiar with ProLine, so I'll be vague here. Just go
   into the files section and look... Anyone wanna clue me in?
2. (for those with a Shell account) Get files to your host
1. Choose an FTP site from the FAQ
2. At your UNIX prompt, type "ftp _____" (fill in hostname)
3. At the "Login:" prompt, type "anonymous" (or "ftp" if you are
   a bad speller like me ;)
4. Type in your e-mail address when prompted for a password.
5. Type "bin" unless you are only getting text files
6. Type "cd ______" (directory) to move to the right directory.
7. type "ls" to see a list of files.
8. Locate each file (more "cd ___"'s and "ls"). Also, "cd .."
   will move up a directory in the tree.)
9. use "get ______" (filename) to get it
10. When you are done using FTP, type "quit"
3. From a WWW browser, most browsers are not set up to download .SHK
   files in binary, which will make them impossible to unpack. There
   are some solutions to this. Dan Zimmerman has made the Apple II
   archive at Caltech automatically send files in binary mode; go to
   http://apple2.caltech.edu/a2archive.html
   If you are using Lynx, when the cursor is on the file to download,
   you can hit 'd' to download the file, which for most people forces
   a binary download. [Lynx has too many versions with the same
   version 'number' and possible configurations to be able to list
   which ones will work.]
   Using most WWW browsers under unix (Netscape, Mosaic, lynx, maybe
   some others) you can try editing the file '.mime.types' (no 's) in
   your home directory on most unix systems. (Contact your local
   sysadmin or guru for help on unix editors). Add the following
   lines to the file:

application/x-Shrinkit shk SHK sdk SDK
application/x-BinaryII bny BNY bqy BQY bxy BXY
This will work for most files downloaded with lynx, netscape, and
mosaic. Non-unix browsers can do similar things, but you'll need
to read the documentation on them.
4. From email or comp.binaries.apple2, the files are pretty much
always in BINSCII format, so you do not need to worry about binary
downloading. Simply save the email or news articles to disk (most
things do have multiple parts, so be sure to get all of them), and
download that to your Apple II. You can keep the posts as separate
files, no need to paste them all together when saving or
downloading. For a multiple part binscii file, the order in which
you unpack them does not matter as long as you unpack every part.
5. Get files to your Apple II
See the next section on transfering Apple II files.