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Subject: Re: INFO-ATARI8 Digest V90 #38
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Date: 25 Mar 90 05:09:00 GMT
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OmniCom (in response to someone's question, I missed the name, sorry)
supports xmodem and kermit as well as ASCII transfers.  I have found the
kermit to work well with unix systems as well as with ProComm on a PC.
I use it at 9600 baud for file transfers to my PC 386.

ASCII capture can be directed to a printer or a file.  It works very
reliably as long as the host supports X-OFF flow control.  It's a little
slow because only a 256 byte buffer is provided.  The program has to
spend about half the time holding the host at bay while it unloads the
buffer.  Come to think of it I guess that's more the fault of the 850
interface (which doesnt allow concurrent modem and disk I/O) than the
buffer size.

Another nice feature of OmniCom (which y'all can thank me for -- I
suggested it to David Young because I had a DECMate with that feature on
my desk at work and found it extremely useful) is the Print Screen
function.  This is very handy for taking down e-mail addresses and other
bits of information.  You can halt the screen with X-OFF or the CTRL-1
(or the HELP key on OMNIVIEW equipped machines) and then press SELECT
and OPTION and the screen is dumped to the printer.

Some folks don't like the menu setup, but for most functions it doesn't
slow you down much.  Otherwise the program is very useable.  -John
Sangster SPHINX Technologies, Inc.