CompuServe Thread

Hi Tony, All your friend needs is a program called "Autopilot" you can find it in the Amigavendor (GO AMIGAVENDOR) libraries under the name: AP.LHA it is by far the best CIS "off line reader", and is dead simple to use.. if your friend hasn't got a modem, make sure he gets at least a 14,400 baud one.. (Any standard modem will do..) he can then use any terminal program to download Autopilot, from then on he'll be flying… Plenty of help available here, aim him our way.. Steve

Tony, Your friend's Amiga4000/040 ought to have OS 2.04 or later already. If so, he has (though he might not have enabled it) a program in the OS called CrossDOS. This program is installed so that it is set up at boot-up, and once started, the Amiga drive can be addressed as DF0: (reads and writes native Amiga format) or as PC0: (reads and writes MSDOS 720K format.) If his floppyis a HD Amiga drive, then he can read or write HD MSDOS formats as well. Check to make sure his CrossDOS is working. Then, download AutoPilot from AmigaVendor – AP.LHA. It is a CompuServe navigation program, a bit like TAPCIS or OZCIS, but with Amiga features. Most of us think it is absolutely wonderful. Your download will be a demo version of the software, which only works for Email and the Amiga forums, but it can be registered online, and then it can access all standard forums on CompuServe – as many as you wish. Once you have downloaded the archive – and LHA138.RUN from AmigaUser, Archivers Library – just put them on a disk and take them to your friend. Have him read them to his Amiga by using PC0: for the name of the drive. It works equally well with binary or text files. —Betty

Tony, >Could any one help me out. I have a friend who has an Amiga 4000/40 he is an elderly gentleman in his late 70's and is house bound. He would like to join compuserve and be able to communicate with the world. He has asked me for advice on how to do this using his Amiga You are correct in that virtually any good modem will do. I use Supra 14.4 FAX modem to connect to CIS. There is good software available here for using with the Amiga and CIS. It's called AutoPilot and the demo can be found in the AmigaVender library number 9 as AP.lha. If he likes it (and it's VERY well done) he can register it here by typing go SWREG using the program. He will need LHA to decompress it also, if it's not already on his system. Skimming through the Redwoods on AutoPilot Asha