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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comm programs
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.061827.6036@agora.uucp>
Date: 1 Oct 90 06:18:27 GMT
References: <2026@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <9561@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <9561@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> amiga@uhccux.UUCP (Boing) writes:
:In article <2026@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
::
::Online! is definitely the second worst commercial terminal program for the
::Amiga.
:
:oh yeah?  I've got a copy of this ancient dog called A-Term I'd throw into
:this fracas.  this program doesn't seem to be supported anymore, so maybe
:it doesn't count.

	Actually, A-Term had a redeeming thing or two in it. The X-Modem
implementation was pretty good... Interesting story behind that program,
and A-Copy, A-File and A-Disk. They were each done on a contract basis by
very early Amiga developers. The company that contracted out for the
programs never bothered to *pay* any of the programmers, so the programmers
never gave the final code the the marketing company. The marketing company
went ahead and shipped with the beta code. That's why there were never
any updates to those programs. (Except for unofficial hacks to A-Copy.)

:-baron
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