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From: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: re: telecom program
Message-ID: <3868@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 89 15:27:36 GMT
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Reply-To: greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <8909061630.aa09968@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SPLECRONE@UALR.BITNET (Psychedelia) writes:
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>  In addition to Zmodem, I would like to see Zmodem-batch, and a real version
>  of Ymodem.  Also, I would like to have an ANSI compatible terminal that
>  produces color graphics.  Another nice feature would be a clock/alarm.

Proterm does do Zmodem batch, a cruddy job of it, but it does work.  My worst
time with Proterm Zmodem took over two hours to receive a file where the 
estimate was 45 minutes.  Proterm needed every other block resent (and then
some).  I like Proterm's editor, and I like the way it can type APW files, 
and its text capture routine on the scroll back buffer.  Its print screen 
command NEVER works properly on my computer, and the option to run with the 
printer on is useless because it loses the first few characters of every line.

In addition some kind on online timer would be useful, even people without
clocks could achieve the same effect by tapping their mousecard.  Did I mention
I like mouse/window interfaces?  You just initialize the mousecard for 
interrupts, enable interrupts, and count them, theres 60 interrupts every 
second.  I have a program written to do this (the timer) if you want a copy,
it also works fine with built in clocks/prodos compatible clocks.