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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: modems, macs, and unix
Message-ID: <2942@esquire.dpw.com>
Date: 27 Dec 90 14:08:41 GMT
References: <73801@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1829@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
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In-reply-to: lriggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Leonard M. Riggins)

In article <1829@blackbird.afit.af.mil>, lriggins@blackbird (Leonard M. Riggins) writes:
>VersaTerm (or the more expensive VT-PRO) has excellent emulation but last
>I checked it only supported Xmodem and Kermit transfers.  Regular VT is about
>$80 mail-order, I believe.  

Just a small correction:  Versaterm supports Ymodem as well.  I find
that 1K block Ymodem transfers give me nearly the same efficiency as
Zmodem transfers, and the program is more reliable than ZTerm.  And it
has near-perfect VT220 emulation.

But there's only the most rudimentary scripting -- sufficient to get
you logged in, but not much more.  Still, it's small and fast, and the
price is right.

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