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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: scripting telecomm programs
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Date: 18 Dec 90 21:32:29 GMT
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In article <901218171526.570013@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>First, does anyone know if the company that supprted and distributed
>ASCII Express is still in business?  I forgot to get the upgrade that
>included the GS serial port when it was announced several years ago
>since I had pretty much stopped using AE; kermit did what I needed to do
>and AE only emulated VT52's.

	I think you should just get ProTERM.  It does everything AE
did and more.  And I think AE is/was awesome.

	You have a scripting language... (Does anyone out there remember
"The Wonderful World of Ascii Express Macros" by yours truly, The
Unknown User???  I was sick of nobody knowing how to get AE to 
redial a Smartmodem type modem, so I wrote a few big long files about it
in a few different revisions.. Even people I didn't like recommended people
to me when they needed help with AE macros)

	But even with all that experience, ProTERM blows AE away.. The
ONLY two things that AE had that I wish ProTERM did were:
	1)Online Run.. So you could have a BBS then run PRoTERM as an
"AE line" (so to speak!)
	2) Masking out characters.. This helps when you have a little bit
of line noise.. Line noise often comes as }s to me, so if you could just
mask out the } you'd effectively have less line noise... (Often when you
have line noise only your end gets it so it doesn't hurt anything to mask out
the characters)
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