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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Comm Toolbox
Message-ID: <43776@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 00:21:21 GMT
References: <1990Aug8.190931.22255@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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dubuc@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Martin Dubuc) writes:

>It has been more than a year that the CTB is out. I do not understand
>why there is so little software that uses it. I suspect that there are
>still some problems with the CTB, or it is too difficult to cope with it
>unless all the major softwares (White Knight, MicroPhone, NCSA Telnet,
>ZTerm, etc...) would be CTB compatible. By now the only product that I know 
>which uses the CTB is VersaTerm, but I didn't see it run. I would like to
>have your impressions about it. I am particularly concerned since I am myself 
>hesitating to integrate the CTB in MultiXfer.

The main problem is that it requires a MAJOR change in most of the commercial
software source code.  It's actually easier to write for (just ask Lonnie)!

As for your hesitation, CTB solves some MAJOR problems with the Mac
serial drivers, and allows your app to be more useful in more environments
rather than just over serial data lines.

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