Subject: Re: No more Apple II? Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!portc04.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news-peer-east1.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news-peer1.sprintlink.net!news-in-west1.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!southwind.net!not-for-mail From: Randy Shackelford Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Date: 5 Mar 1999 04:15:52 GMT Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <7bnlpo$omh$1@opal.southwind.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: onyx.southwind.net User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981114 ("The Watchman") (UNIX) (BSD/OS/3.1 (i386)) Louis Cornelio wrote: : I am not sure what the direct lint is for the system software at Apple, : but I do this far: : http://til.info.apple.com/ftp.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software _Updates/US/Apple_II : which came up "no such directory" It's not the greatest idea to type in a mile long URL ending with a directory path, as you discovered. If the directory path changes or if you type it in wrong, your URL is no good. : while I can belive it. I imagine the is another Apple ftp route to : download GS & other system stuff -- can anyone tell me where? Server names and directory structures do change from time to time, so it makes sense to look around rather than just assuming evil Apple has rooked Apple II users yet again. I directed my browser to asu.info.apple.com and selected browse. You get the alphabet in a vertical column. If you click the blue triangle next to a letter, you see all the software updates whose names begin with that letter. As might be expected, the bulk of Apple II stuff is in the A list. Hypercard IIgs, logically enough, appears in the H list. I hadn't visited the updates site for a while and didn't know about the asu site until I poked around a little. But this new setup is a lot better than trying to remember a path or having to dig through a directory structure to find stuff. I like it. -- Offsite mail to this host gets nuked.