Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!jwbirdsa From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: YTERM and DESQview Message-ID: <10698@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 4 Oct 89 21:25:33 GMT References: <89268.151345DLV101@PSUVM.BITNET> <275@bmers58.UUCP> Reply-To: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 23 In article geer@cardinal.yalecs.edu (John Y. Geer) writes: >YTERM is an IBM PC based terminal package written at Yale and distributed >by the Yale Computer Center. [Frankly, I think it sucks.] It supports >key redefinition and a fast file transfer (YTRANS). It seems to be >used best with our VM/CMS system that has a large PC archive. I seem >to recall that it even supports the APL character set. > > john y. FAST file transfer? Maybe there are newer versions that I don't know about. I'm using (I think) 1.3. We also have (I think) 2.1, but it trashed the screen occasionally while I was using VI, so I gave up on it and went back to 1.3. As for file transfer, YTRANS (known as PCTRANS around here) is a total loss. If you're trying to transfer a text file that begins with asterisks or periods, it hangs. Avoid YTERM at all costs. -- James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU jwbirdsa@pucc.BITNET ...allegra!princeton!phoenix!jwbirdsa Compu$erve: 71261,1731 "For it is the doom of men that they forget." -- Merlin