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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Terminal Program recommendations?
Message-ID: <2894@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 3 Jul 90 15:28:03 GMT
References: <4742@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1132.268d420c@dayton.saic.com>
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In article <1132.268d420c@dayton.saic.com>, fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes:
> In article <4742@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, borneo@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (B. Theocrastus Holmes) writes:
>> All I need my terminal program to do is upload ASCII, transfer files in
>> Zmodem, and perhaps emulate ANSI and some other keyboard types.  I will
>> pay good money to make this a reality.
>> 
>> I have an old copy of Access!, which is the best uploader of text I have seen,
>> but has no worthwhile protocols and doesn't speak sensibly to many BBSs.  
>> I have used JRComm, which has beauty screens and Zmodem, but also the worst
>> ASCII transfers I have ever seen, bar none (Vers .094).  
>> 
>> The question is:  are there any TPs out there which do everything well?
>>   What are you using right now?
> 
> Right now I would suggest JRComm.  Jack will start duplicating the v1.0 disks
> in the next few days.
[...]
> Handshake 2.12a is out there.  It doesn't do zmodem yet.  It is a good vt100
> emulation and does support xmodem, ymodem, and kermit.  It all depends on
> what you want.

There's Willy Langeveld's VLT, and ATalkIII, and later versions of Access!
(latest is 1.42), and OnLine! (yeech!), and Wecker's VT100, and.....

                                  8-)

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