#New User
Bob,
Your software manual should explain to you how to download
software. It should tell you what protocol options are available to you.
Since you got to the point where it asked for a filename for you
computer, you must have selected one of the 'B' protocols. Those protocols
are specific to CompuServe…but many, many terminals support them. What
should have occured after that (once you entered a filename) is that the
transfer should have started if indeed your terminal program supported that
protocol.
You can indeed download to either your floppy or your HD or even to
RAM: the way to do this is to simply preface the filename (when asked or
prompted by your program) with where exactly you want the program to go.
For example, if you wanted it downloaded to a directory called "downloads"
on a hard drive known as DH0: they you'd enter dh0:downloads/<filename>
where <filename> is the name you wish the file called after download.
LZ and LHARC are compression programs. That is, they take a file
and make it smaller so that it costs less to download it.
You can practice uploading and downloading from Compuserve's
practice forum (GO PRACTICE). The practice forum is free of normal
Compuserve connect charges. Once you get that down ok…then download the
file ARCHLP.EXE from this forum and it'll explain the use of LHARC and
other archivers.
Don