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From: afoster@ogccse.ogc.edu (Allan Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Telecommunication software
Message-ID: <4099@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 89 06:22:54 GMT
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Reply-To: afoster@ogccse.UUCP (Allan Foster)
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In article <2681.24DA671E@isishq.FIDONET.ORG> Cindy.Long@isishq.FIDONET.ORG (Cindy Long) writes:
>Can anyone help me find out where I can get telecommunication software 
>for Macs? I'm looking specifically for shareware/PD, but am interested in 
>knowing what's out there in commercial products as well. Is there a 
>version of "procomm" for the Mac (or something similar)?
> 
>Any help would be appreciated.
> 
>Cindy.

Well Cindy,
there are several choices available for the Mac.

On the shareware freeware side there is freeterm and several others.  ZTerm is
the latest in the shareware terminal programs and works pretty well.

If you have a host that supports ZModem file transfer protocol then this works real well.
On the commercial front there are several others.

Red Ryder has been around several years and is now in version 11.X

Smartcomm II from Hayes is also good.

MicroPhone II from Software Ventures is also a commercial application.

All the commercial programs offer some form of scripting ranging from
adequate to a full programming language.

It is your choice as to which would serve your needs.

There are also several Special purpose emulators for less standard terminals

Allan Foster
MicroPhone II Development Team.
afoster@cse.ogc.edu



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