Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,connect.audit
Subject: Re: MNP5 software
Message-ID: <255E2526.13988@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 13 Nov 89 02:21:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.255E2526.13988
References: <1989Nov9.232551.3942@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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dgs@swdev.Waterloo.NCR.COM (David G. Schwartz) wrote:
>I wrote:
>>As for FlashLink, it came with my modem (from Cardinal Technologies
>>in Lancaster, PA). It implements MNP levels 2, 4 and 5.
>I also bought this modem but found the software to be virtually useless and
>have discontinued using it. However, I _would_ like to be able to use the
>MNP 5.

   I have a few gripes with the software, the primary one being that it
emulates an ANSI terminal (which is _not_ quite the same as a VT100).  The
fact that I have to leave FL in order to do a file transfer is due to a
problem with our Sun rather than with FL (although it would have been nice
if they had included more than just X and Ymodem ...).

   I have found that living with these problems has not been too much of an
inconvenience to force me to give up higher-speed, _error-free_ data
links ... in fact, even if it only did MNP level 4 (no compression), I
would likely still use it for the error-correction alone.

   When communicating with a non-MNP host, I use Procomm Plus because it
does VT102 emulation and has so many more file transfer protocols; other
than these two features, though, I don't really use anything in Procomm
that isn't in FlashLink.  But then again, I don't transfer files that often
on this system, and almost every other system I've used has had a working
version of X or Y modem.

DISCLAIMER:  I have no affiliation with Datastorm Technologies, Cardinal
      Technologies, Microcom, or MagicSoft except that I have used their
      products.
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Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
          <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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