Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!metahawk From: metahawk@itsgw.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby) Subject: Re: HandShake sucks?? Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Sender: Wayne Rigby Nntp-Posting-Host: jec413.its.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY References: <1745@sjfc.UUCP> <14232@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 8 Apr 91 20:16:43 GMT Lines: 40 In article <14232@darkstar.ucsc.edu> theacct@bill.ucsc.edu (El hombre de pelo estranja) writes: > >I can understand why he wouldn't like Handshake. Myself, I have no use for > a program such as Handshake, and my personal favorite Term programs currently >are Ncomm 1.9 and Vlt 5.045. Handshake does have some annoying features/bugs >but I just kind of discded it because I ddidn't feel right complaining >to the author without having registered it, and I didn't want to register a >program that annoyed me. Anyway, vlt and ncomm are very nice for my needs, >although it would be REAL neat if one of them could implement a unix-windows >type protocol. > >On a side note: Does anyone know if it's at all possible to emulate X-Windows >on an Amiga, I'd be very interested in running X on the machine I'm using >through the modem. Thanks. > >-jas >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Daniel Jalkut -- Amiga guy | "And didn't I read that these devices >snozer@toast.santa-cruz.ca.us /// | go two way and everything I do or say >408-429-8628 -- Day /// | is goin' on a tape somewhere right now >408-423-6926 -- Night \XX/ | planted in my cavities?" -- LARD >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've used Handshake, jrcomm, and A-Talk III and have decided that jrcomm is the one I like best, but unfortunately, it doesn't support kermit transfer protocals. The campus' mainframes XMODEM doesn't work at all and no one seems to know why, so I really can't use jrcomm. What I really want is something like VersaTerm Pro for the Macs, anyone seen something like this for the Amiga? I can't remember the company, but you can buy X-windows for the Amiga. The add I saw advertised with nice color X displays on an Amiga (although they said color X was not yet available). It's sold by itself and in packages that contains the Boing optical mouse and/or an ethernet card. Note the followup. metahawk@rpi.edu