Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bigsur!bnr-rsc!mlord From: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Procomm Plus 2.0 "features" Keywords: Procomm Plus 2.0 Message-ID: <4012@bnr-rsc.UUCP> Date: 13 Feb 91 15:08:12 GMT References: <2095@raybed2.msd.ray.com> Reply-To: mlord@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Mark Lord) Distribution: na Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 26 In article <2095@raybed2.msd.ray.com> rgc@raybed2.msd.ray.com (RICK CARLE) writes: >I tried the procomm+ test drive until mskermit 3.0 came out, then I >switched to kermit for network use. Kermit 3.0 has the absolute best >VT102 terminal emulation I've seen (after a little tuning) and, of >course, it has the best kermit protocol. But no zmodem. Then rbcomm >3.3 appeared. It has a really great zmodem implementation. I've only Well, actually it has a really great interface to DSZ, which IS zmodem. >just started using it, so I may be forming my opinions prematurely, but >I plan to continue using kermit for Unix and rbcomm for BBS. I use rbcomm for unix, with a 50x80 (or is that 80x50 ?) screen. Great for reading news at home. No problems at all with the vt100/2 emulation on our particular HP-UX system, and it even works properly with the eval `resize -c` thingie we use to automatically configure things for whatever screen size the terminal is currently set for. >All BBSs that I know provide zmodem or kermit protocol. Zmodem is available for most (all?) unix boxes.. look for the rzsz stuff. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|