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From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm .cmd files
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Date: 28 Jun 90 08:56:14 GMT
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Weell, I found the file everyone told me about that explains the
commands for Procomm .CMD files... Silly me, I didn't even look through
the files that came with Procomm before posting!  Well, I learned my
lesson.

But I'm still looking for alternatives to Procomm, and I'd like to
know... Is Procomm Plus worth it?  (It's commercial software, not
shareware, from what I understand.)  If not, can you recommend something
with a *good* emulation of some terminal?

Also, I'd like to know what terminal emulation mode Procomm users use.
I've been using VT100, because it's pretty standardized.  I've noticed
that I have to set automargins off, because of the behavior of some UNIX
programs.  Do the other modes treat this better?  Does Procomm Plus
handle the last column wrap correctly?  (For those of you who don't
understand what I'm referring to, on most real terminals, when a
character is printed to the last column of a line, the cursor does *not*
move to the next line until the next character is received.  UNIX
programs like vi and pagers often compensate for this by adding a CRLF
after that character, which on Procomm, since it wraps immediately,
causes a blank line.)

Ack, what an awful mess that paragraph was.

Again, please send all replies via mail, as I don't have the time or
patience to deal with the volume of this group.
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