Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!tamsun!cmw1725 From: cmw1725@tamsun.u.washington.edu (Christopher Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: SWM seeks Terminal Program for Lasting Relationship Message-ID: <11524@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 26 Jan 91 01:18:46 GMT References: <1991Jan24.235514.7711@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Jan25.024344.197@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 38 (lassini stefano) writes: >I use VLT by Willy Langeveld and I'm very happy with it. It has all the >features that you mention plus many more, including an ARexx port. It >has kermit and xmodem builtin, and it supports the xpr protocol >libraries: this feature adds zmodem, ascii transfer and unlimited >expansion by only adding the right library in your LIBS: directory. Point taken, that it is ALMOST as good as HANDSHAKE, but it is twice the size in executable size alone, not to mention all the rexx files, and libraries you need to do anything. True Handshake has no scripting language, but soon will. > >More than so, VLT is public domain, aka is FREE, Handshake is ShareWare. *Free* if you don't like it or don't use it! >and an excellent 114 >pages manual is available from SLAC [Stanford Linear Accelerator Center] >by simply requesting it [also the manual is free!!] > Handshake comes with a manual as well. (On disk) and who says bigger is a factor??? >I am completely satisfied of VLT's features, and I recommend to give it Sorry, I hated VLT. > >Stefano Lassini >slassini@convex.cl.msu.edu Christopher Walton cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu n074ev@tamuts.tamu.edu