Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucselx!crash!hrlaser From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AZComm Message-ID: <5741@crash.cts.com> Date: 20 Nov 90 02:20:21 GMT References: <86045@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 44 In article <86045@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Jeff Martens writes: > >In this month's Amiga World, there's a characteristically shallow >review of telecommunications software. Being a long-time Online user, >and looking for something better (and within a grad student's budget), >I thought I'd like to take a look at one of the PD packages mentioned: >AZComm. But it's not listed on my list of fish disks through 294. Is >it available via ftp somewhere? Does anyone have a strong opinion on >it, one way or the other? Thanks. >-- >-- Jeff (martens@cis.ohio-state.edu) > > Any sufficiently advanced technology is > indistinguishable from a well-rigged demo. As the author of that "characteristically shallow" review I'd like to thank you for that incisive piece of literary criticism. Given Amiga World's deadline restraints and an 1800 word limit, I've love to see what you, Jeff, could come up with in the way of a comparative review of those same ten terminal programs, a review which would meet your own criteria of "unshallowness" while still attempting to cover all the bases and be understood by novices. Oh, and make a two page chart too, while you're at it. I won't apologize at all for the content of my article except to Willy Langeveld for not having enough room to add VLT to the list of programs discussed. Now as to AZComm, as my shallow article revealed, it's a minimally revamped version of Dan James' Comm 1.34 with Zmodem and a c.p.s. counter added. Comm 1.34 is on a Fish disk. If you've seen Comm then, except for the Zmodem, you've seen AZComm. Neither of them will do as many things as Online!Platinum will. AZcomm's Zmodem is much faster than Online!Platinum's. You can download AZComm from People/Link where it's been for a couple years, or off most any Amiga-oriented BBS. When someone sends it to Fred, then it'll be on a Fish disk. Harv Laser {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser "Park and lock it. Not responsible." People/Link: CBM*HARV