How Easy Must the Network be to Use?
The WEB is easy but not for the untrained novice. Using the Kaypro version, you need to know at least the basic CP/M commands.
But once you do, you’re just about home free.
Take the PIP command, which, among other things, lets you transfer files from one disk to another on a machine by itself. To switch a file named TEST from drive A to drive B, you’d load a PIP program into your computers temporary memory. Then you might type B:=A:TEST.
Via The WEB, though, how do you try to reach someone else’s drive?
Well, you could issue a similar command. Only, instead of saying you[you] wanted to reach drive B, you might ask for drive H—which is how the other person’s drive might be electronically known around the office.
That’s with The WEB set up the simplest way. Even with The WEB in a more complex form, however, the procedure wouldn’t be much harder.
On the other hand, The WEB isn’t the system for you if you’re hoping just to press one or two buttons to send information on its way.