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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: HandShake 2.20c DOES work with xprzmodem
Keywords: handshake guru
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.232854.23820@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 23:28:54 GMT
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In article <1991Mar5.192516.19358@watdragon.waterloo.edu> sbmueller@rose.uwaterloo.ca (stephan();) writes:
>In article <1718@public.BTR.COM> thad@btr.btr.com writes:
>
>>Having read "HandShake gurus my machine" the past several days, I really
>>didn't believe it, so I ftp'd HandShake-2.20c.lzh from ab20.larc.nasa.gov
>>and tried for myself using the xprzmodem.library "2.0 (28 Oct 1989)" and
>>it works just fine ... in fact, VERY impressively.
>
>Sometimes.  When it works, it works extremely well!  When it doesn't,
>the lockup is immediate, and the guru persistent.
>
>Handshake 2.20c locks up for me at two specific times:
>- when attempting to dial (using the dialer menu, not by manually
>typing ATDT etc.)
>- when attempting to download (this has happened with external
>protocols as well as the builtin Kermit text, for instance)

     The *ONLY* times I've had Handshake 2.20c lock up or guru on me are when
I attempted to run it with a faulty Arexx script (i.e. one with bugs in it),
or, when I accidentially start two copies of handshake running (I assume this
works if you have more than one modem).

>I'm running Handshake 2.20c, on an A1000, with 2.5Megs, Comspec
>HD controller, KS/WB1.3.2, ARP, Conman/WShell/ARexx, and other things
>too numerous to mention but whose removal has no effect on the problem.
>
>I'm curious: do those of you who've had no problem by chance all own
>A3000s?  Eric Haberfellner does, and a friend who also has had no
>problems does...

     I own a 3000 (I don't use ARP either).

>(-: Hmm.  Maybe, Eric sends the fully functional version only to those
>who register (so where's my copy Eric? :-)

     I downloaded my copy from ab20.larc.nasa.gov and sent in the money.