[NTLUG:Discuss] instant aol?

[Steve Baker]

David Ross wrote:
> 
> First i know everyone is having a good chuckle at AOL,anyway the only way to
> get my better half interested in Linux is if she can keep her AOL. I'm trying
> a program called "instant aol". Everything goes fine except for the log on
> part of the setup.
> the 2 choices are >telephone modem (which i don't use)
> >Home Network (which i need,but is dimmed out and i'm not able to select this
> choice) I am currently reading through the setup script to find a commented
> out line (don't really know what i'm looking for)

There was some comment on Slashdot (www.slashdot.org) today about someone
having figured out the AOL protocol and having written a very basic access
mechanism to use AOL under Linux.

I lost interest in the article just after reading the intro - so I don't
know exactly what it does or doesn't do.  Sounded like it had a way to go
yet.

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