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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Proterm 2.2 demo
Message-ID: <91071.222415ART100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 03:24:15 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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Just a few words about that proterm demo I posted.

It is truly a demo, and as such only partially works. All file saving
seems to be disabled -- this means you can't save your setup, or
editor files, or any downloads. It does upload just fine however.

It also doesn't work with the versacard, which has me rather upset.
More on that later. It should work ok with most people's hardware though.

There is no printer support, nor extended memory support.

It is, however, probably useful for evaluation purposes.

I was able to partially get the program up and running with my
versacard by selecting the two drivers following it in the menu, but
they didn't work "properly." They use a different method of dialing,
and while I have nothing against typing atdt commands to dial (since
I'm used to it), even that didn't work properly, since I would get thrown
into the menu as soon as the remote system answered, and it was rather
difficult to get back on-line. Also, after the first time I did this,
the modem wouldn't even dial one digit before proterm seemed to send
it a cr or some character, making it hang up. I did type the normal
init string it uses for the hayes modems, by the way. I ended up
dialing using kermit and then booting the demo. This was a pain, since
it takes a while to get past all the setup, and the remote system
liked to hang up in the meantime. I never did get to really put it
through its paces and see if it fixed all my gripes with previous
versions. (Heck, at least 2.1 ran with my versacard, even though it
didn't buffer output and would lose characters too often when clearing
the screen, or sometimes when scrolling).

I'm not trying to re-start the proterm wars here, just curious if
anyone else tried the demo and wondering how things worked (esp. on
non-ssc systems). The demo certainly convinced me -- proterm, despite
its bells and whistles, doesn't suit my needs.