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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Re: Bug in ProTerm 2.2?
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Date: 24 Mar 91 20:24:46 GMT
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In article <30522.apple.net@pro-beagle> lhaider@pro-beagle.cts.com (Laer Haider) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from bazyar@chip
>
>>   All hail TelCom, saviour of the modem world.
>>   Coming soon to an FTP site near you.
>
>TelCom?  Ok, my ears are perked.  What kind of features does it have?
>Especially, does it include text handling as good as ProTERM's?  I'm 
>sure we're ALL interested.

   Note that I've been working on this for a year and a half, so don't hold
your breath.  In planning my curriculum, the College of Engineering forgot
to leave me time for "big software projects".
   As far as features, we have:
  Emulations- VT100, VT52, Proterm Special, Apple II, and soon a split-
     screen 'chat' feature.
  Protocols- Currently supported are Xmodem and Ymodem, (all Apple
    varieties, in addition to the standard Unix/MSDOS are handled).
    As I speak I'm working on Zmodem.  All I can say is I'm really
    glad that Orca 1.2 is evidently at my house.
    Note that this is REAL Zmodem, in fact the very code that gets
    executed when you type 'rz' on your favorite Unix box.

Telcom has what I think is a nice interface, a good feel. Some people
disagree (Albert!) about aesthetics, but it's very usable. I hate to
sound like Brian "If you guys don't pay me I'll never make another game
again" Greenstone, but if I can't find a commercial publisher for this
it may never see the light of day.  Which means I hope to find one.
I won't go into detail in the remaining features because I'll get
overrun with mail now as it is- suffice it to say that Proterm cannot
compare to TelCom where growth potential is concerned.

--
Jawaid Bazyar               |"I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." 
Senior/Computer Engineering |
bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu          |"That's okay. I'm sure Mike's never heard of K&R".
   Apple II Forever!        |  (discussion about Orca/C)