Panix Help System - Setting up your Internet software

Software Help

Panix lets you use whatever Internet software you like. These days, setup for most clients is pretty obvious, but we do provide instructions for a few of the most popular email programs and some general information for other kinds of programs as well. these applications too. We also have available help documents for older software.

Jump to 'Getting Connected' for help with your dialup connection!

Jump 'UNIX Shell Help' for help with UNIX shell applications.

Email Programs

Thunderbird 3.x (for Windows or Macintosh)

Apple Mail.app for Macintosh

MS Outlook Express 5/6 for Windows (deprecated)

FTP & SFTP (File Transfer Protocol & Secure FTP)

Filezilla (Windows)

Transmit: FTP and SFTP program for Mac OS X (Shareware)

Fugu: FTP, SFTP and SCP program for Mac OS X (Freeware)

Legacy applications

We still have documentation for a lot of older software.