Quick Reminder: Anarchie is a shareware FTP and Archie client program that you use to search for and retrieve files available via anonymous FTP. Currently, the FTP function is substantially more useful (lately, using Archie to search for files has not worked well, though this is no fault of Anarchie's), so these steps focus on using Anarchie for FTP.
Tasks:
Anarchie launches.
That's it. You're done configuring and launching Anarchie and ready to use Anarchie to connect to a site and retrieve a file.
Anarchie brings up the Get via FTP window (see figure 29.35).
Figure 29.35: Anarchie Get via FTP window.
Anarchie displays a progress window as it downloads the file (see figure 29.36). When the download is complete, Anarchie passes the file to StuffIt Expander for post-processing. StuffIt Expander debinhexes and expands the file, thus turning it into a NewsWatcher folder, which will appear on your desktop unless you've used Internet Config to change the location of your download folder. (You change the download folder using the File Transfer tile.)
Figure 29.36: Anarchie progress window.
Figure 29.37: Anarchie Bookmarks window.
Anarchie connects to ftp.acns.nwu.edu and puts you in the /pub/disinfectant directory (see figure 29.38).
Figure 29.38: Anarchie at ftp.acns.nwu.edu.
Anarchie downloads Disinfectant. When the download is complete, Anarchie passes the file to StuffIt Expander. StuffIt Expander debinhexes and expands the file, thus turning it into a Disinfectant icon, which will appear on your desktop unless you've used Internet Config to change the location of your download folder.
Congratulations! You've just performed all the basic tasks in Anarchie you're likely to do in real life. Extrapolate from these instructions to retrieve other files using Anarchie's Bookmarks and Get via FTP dialog.
Quick Reminder: MacWeb is a client application for the World Wide Web, the most graphical and flexible of the Internet services.
Tasks:
MacWeb launches and loads its default home page. Figure 29.39 shows what the MacWeb default home page will look like if you use installed MacWeb using the ISKM Installer. Don't worry if yours looks different, though you should see the same buttons across the top.
Figure 29.39: MacWeb welcome page.
MacWeb brings up the Preferences dialog and displays its General options.
MacWeb displays its Format options (see figure 29.40).
Figure 29.40: MacWeb preferences dialog.
That's all there is to it. You now have MacWeb configured and ready to go. If you get tired of automatically loading images on the Web pages you view, you can go back to the preferences dialog and turn Autoload Images back off.
MacWeb displays the contents of the EINet Galaxy page (see figure 29.41).
Figure 29.41: MacWeb at EINet Galaxy.
MacWeb takes you to the Visual Arts page on the EINet Galaxy (see figure 29.42).
Figure 29.42: MacWeb at the Visual Arts page.
I hope you're feeling comfortable with clicking on underlined text to move around in the Web, because if you are, you know the basics of browsing the Web. Feel free to continue clicking on underlined words (which are called links) to move to other parts of the Web -- it's too large and fast-moving for me to give you any further explicit browsing directions. If you are wondering what to do if your know a URL for a Web site that you want to visit and want to point MacWeb directly at that site, keep reading to find out how.
Figure 29.43: Type a specific URL.
Figure 29.44: MacWeb at the Apple Computer Web server.
That's all there is to going to a particular URL. If you see URLs in publications, on business cards, or wherever, you can type them into the Open URL dialog or you can also paste them from other programs. You can also type or paste URLs directly into the URL box at the top right of the MacWeb window, though this takes some hand-eye coordination.
If you are thinking about taking a break, please don't. I'm hoping you'll continue to the next set of steps so that you can see how to add an entry to your MacWeb hotlist.
MacWeb adds the Apple Computer Web server to the bottom of the Hotlist menu.
MacWeb loads your default home page.
MacWeb takes you directly to the Apple Computer Web server.
MacWeb brings up a Standard File dialog, and you can save the hotlist anywhere you wish. Remember where you save it, though, because in your next MacWeb session you may find yourself trying to open your hotlist by dropping down the Hotlist menu, choosing the Hotlist Operations hierarchical menu, and then using the Open command to open the hotlist. (Of course, you can avoid these steps by double-clicking the hotlist icon in order to launch MacWeb.)
That's about all there is to using MacWeb, though exploring even a portion of the Web could take a lifetime. When you finish looking around for now, quit MacWeb by choosing Quit from the File menu. You may wish to disconnect from the Internet after you quit.
If you've followed some or all of the previous tasks, you've done quite a bit on the Internet. Here is what you've learned to do:
My apologies if you found this section a bit stilted or boring, but I hope it conveyed just the information you need to get over the hump of using these programs. If something changed such that the instructions don't work quite right, my apologies -- but don't lose heart. The Internet changes rapidly and you must be flexible enough to deal with that change. Keep trying and you're bound to get the hang of it soon.
This chapter also brings us to the end of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh. It may seem as though there are lots of pages left, but they're all appendixes, some of which you may want to browse through. If you're like many people, you've probably already flipped through them and seen the lists of Internet access providers and the list of HTML tags in appendix C.
I hope you've enjoyed this book, and I hope you enjoy the Internet.