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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Procomm .cmd files
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Date: 3 Jul 90 13:06:49 GMT
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In article <4759@darkstar.ucsc.edu> hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
>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?

I have used PROCOMM, TELIX, and KERMIT, as well as various rinky-dinky
terminal programs for windows, the one from the pc-tools, and others..

The "best" in my opinion is RBCOMM31, a FREEWARE program available from simtel.

The terminal is the ONLY emulation that works 100% with the vt100/vt102 settings
ofn our HPUX/MIPS/SUN systems here at work.  All of the others resulted in 
messy screens at some point.  RBCOMM even works with the X-windows `resize -c`
thingie that we used to dynamically configure weird screen sizes.  It supports
214,43,50 lines no problem, has a dialing directory, script language, and is
both Desqview and 16550AN "aware".  An excellent program.

Definitely the best for the price, and a good one at any price (IMHO).
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