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From: alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: BINScii suggestion
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.082505.7046@nevada.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 08:25:05 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.144018.17650@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>Why should he get another telecomm program? Snowterm does a very nice
>vt100 emulation and most AppleII() files are in binscii'd form anyway,
>so that capturing things to a RAM buffer makes a lot of sense....

...unless you have crappy phone lines where you live (I do :-( ).
BinSCII, while nice for sending stuff over the net, is hardly good for
mainframe-to-bitty-box modem transfers when you see lots of "{"s and
other drek in your connections.

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