Welcome to old-style Internet access -- souped up for your surfing pleasure! In this chapter I take you on a fast flight through the few Macintosh programs that can work over a Unix command-line ...

Shell accounts give access to a remote system via a shell, like early internet users in the '90s. A shell account offers a managed environment, networking utilities, email, web space, and development ...

A customer account with an Internet service provider (ISP) that requires the user to enter Unix commands to send and receive mail and files. Prior to today's graphical interfaces, Internet access was ...

The $25 shareware program Homer from Toby Smith comes in two forms -- one for MacTCP-based connections and one for those who have only a Unix shell account. Homer is primarily used via a MacTCP-based ...