Macintosh Internet Software

See also Info-Mac HyperArchive and Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh

French and Japanese versions of some programs are available.

Overview

• Internet Access Programs
• Client Programs
  • News readers
  • Web clients
  • Gopher clients
• Servers
• Other Sites

Internet Access Programs

• InterSLIP, which InterCon has graciously made freely available

• MacPPP

• MacSLIP 2.0.6 updater

• MacTCP 2.0.6 updater (Includes Admin updater; Requires a "virgin" copy of MacTCP 2.0.4)

Client Programs

• Internet Config, a single program to set all of your common internet preferences.

• NCSA Telnet telnet client, emulates a vt100 and a tektronix terminal

• Comet, a scriptable telnet client which offers emulation of both vt100 and tn3270 terminals (NOTE: MacBinary format)

• tn3270 telnet client, emulates a tn3270 terminal

• Fetch, an FTP client.

• Anarchie, an archie client; from Peter Lewis

• MacWeather, monitor the weather conditions and retrieve forecasts!

• Blueskies, a specialized gopher client for providing weather reports with some experimental interactive graphics

• Newsreaders
  • NewsWatcher; from John Norstad.
  • Value-Added NewsWatcher (NOTE: MacBinary format)
    Includes filtering and binary posting. (Not a John Norstad original.)
  • InterNews

• Web Clients
  • NetScape is easily the best of any of the clients, including the current commercial ventures.
  • MacWeb has a couple of features lacking in NetScape which justify keeping it around.
  • And there is always MacMosaic.

  See also Web Programs and Utilities.

• Eudora has an FTP site where you can get the latest free version including Eudora documentation and versions localized for other countries; Eudora 2.1 users can find an updater to the latest version.
  Also a comparison between the free and commercial versions.

• Network Time for synchronizing your Mac's clock with a times server, and Network Time documentation

• MacPh, client for the Ph (Qi) electronic directory system; from John Norstad

• Traceroute requires Traceroute Ethernet LAP

• MacX.500, client for the X.500 electronic directory system

• Finger, a finger client; from Peter Lewis

• Talk a talk client (and server); from Peter Lewis

• Query it! for looking up name server records

• Gopher clients
  • GopherApp
  • TurboGopher
  • MacGopher

• MacWAIS, a WAIS client

• CU-See-Me, video conferencing tool.

• Maven, audio conferencing tool.

• Homer, an IRC client (and Homer clients)

• IRCle, another IRC client.

See also Portable Document Readers.

Servers

• MacHTTP, a wonderful HTTP server for the Macintosh.

• MailShare, a wonderful Macintosh SMTP and POP server

• Net Presenz, an FTP and Web server for the Macintosh; from Peter Lewis

• Macjordomo: A Macintosh Listserver

• Macintosh Internet Name Daemon (MIND)

• Talk a talk server (and client); from Peter Lewis

• GopherSurfer, a gopher server for the Macintosh.

• Daemon, yet another Peter Lewis product; "Daemon is a general TCP server, implementing several simple unix daemons, namely Finger, Whois, Ident, Daytime and NTP (time). It runs as a background only application and answers queries to those services."
  Has problems with 7.5, will be fixed sometime in the future

Other Sites

• Macintosh on the Internet

May 24, 1995 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)