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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: NeXT and Modems
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Date: 5 Oct 90 18:46:17 GMT
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In article <1990Sep28.120652.167@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes:
>I am seriously considering buying a new  105 meg 'slab'.  One small question.
>Is there terminal software available so I can use my modem with it?  I have
>seen plenty of UNIX boxes that have modems hooked up for Usenet transfer and
>such but I was looking for terminal software (with decent vt100 emulation) for
>calling our mainframes and such.

There is Kermit out there for free. It is a wonderful tool for this
purpose. With the kermit take command you can run command sequences
and do all kind of other neat stuff. Kermit runs within Terminal or
Stuart and thus also gives you a vt100 emulation.

Ronald
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