CompuServe Thread

Carolyn: Welcome to the forum and welcome to the world of Amiga! By 'A-term' do you mean AmigaTerm or ATERM? In either case you might want to try 'capturing' some of the help files in DL1 (they have the extension '.hlp' and can be searched for with the 'BRO *.hlp' command at the DL1 ! prompt). Don't know if you are familiar with CIS or not so…..to get to DL1 just type DL1 at the forum 'Function :' prompt. If these don't help you then ask again but you might provide a little more description of what happens when you do try to download. If everything seems to go ok except that you can't find the files then I would suspect that you are using the workbench and not the CLI. To be able to see files on the Amiga you either have to use the CLI or have a utility that runs from the workbench (such a DUII). Amiga WorkBench can not 'see' a file or program unless there is an associated '.info' file. Of systems (such as CIS can not have a file with more than 3 characters following a period in their file name so it is not possible to download a file from most systems that can immediately be used from the workbench). ARC extension (files with '.ARC') are made with a utility that compresses one or more file into a single shorter file. There are several advantages to this since the file takes less room to store and less time to download (cost you less) and a number of associated files can be kept together in a single file. The de-ARCing utility is available here in the DLs. There are help files in DL1 that explain more about ARChives and how to use the utilities. 73, bill

Carolyn, I'm sure the solution is relatively simple…but I need a bit more information. Can you give me a step by step description of how you are attempting to download…and what error messages you are getting (if any) and if they are from the program or from CIS. Also…are you calling from the US or from Canada? Don