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From: king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comm programs
Message-ID: <4453@orchid3.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 90 17:37:36 GMT
References: <9009150938.AA05299@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1990Sep17.172317.4987@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <27261@usc.edu>
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In article <27261@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <1990Sep17.172317.4987@ucselx.sdsu.edu> maxc0849@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent) writes:
>> 	Right now, the only term that I have experienced and know that i could
>>emulate vt100 rather closely is "Online !!".  It does a beautiful job on the
>>control codes and even support the cursor control on a typical vt100 terminal.
>
>[...] In fact Online!'s VT100 emulator is the *worse* of all the ones 
>I've seen, commercial, shareware and PD.  It fails on almost all features
>even on simple torture tests like VTTEST. If you're strapped with money
>both VT100 R.9 and Hanshake will do a much better job at emulating a VT100
>than Online! by a mile.

I support Marco's opinion on this one, biased as it may be. :-)  Online! is
absolutely the worst terminal program I've ever used.  Actually, I used
the telecom portion of "The Works!", which I gather is nothing but an
integrated (yeah, right) collection of Online!, Scribble!, a spreadsheet
and a database manager.  Online! drove me to search out better comm programs,
and ATalk is the one I settled on.  It's not perfect (sorry, Marco) but
it beats the socks off of Online!  I'd venture that most freely distributable
programs would as well.

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