Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!arcsun.arc.ab.ca!arcsun!kenw From: kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: PacerTerm announcement Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 03:14:09 GMT References: <55534@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <11884@hub.ucsb.edu> Sender: nobody@arc.ab.ca (Absolutely Nobody) Organization: Alberta Research Council, Calgary Alberta, Canada Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: 6500wong@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu's message of 6 Jun 91 00:38:41 GMT In article <11884@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500wong@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Ki Ching Wong) writes: In article <55534@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu writes: >Regarding PacerTerm announcement in c.s.m.announce: >A CTB terminal emulator with TCP/IP and HyperTalk scripting, etc ... >This is sorely tempting, even to a die-hard Red Ryder/White Knight >addict. Any net folks have first-hand experience with PacerTerm? >-- Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu) I am curious too! How can they do multiwindow communication with a modem? Or can they do that at all? That's the most tempting feature of all, IMHO. -Ki Wong 6500wong@ucsbuxa Well... I haven't yet used PacerTerm, but I've been using what I presume is PacerTerm's predecessor, PacerLink, for at least a couple of years. I routinely have three or four PacerLink terminal sessions active at one time. However, only one of those can be a serial (modem) session. If one were running SLIP, AppleTalk, PPP, or some other high-level protocol across a serial line to a remote node, one could theoretically have multiple sessions across it, but you'd loose a _lot_ of speed to overhead -- and they couldn't really be called serial sessions. I like PacerLink. Oh, sure, there are thinks I'd like to have... a meta key for Emacs, for one, or some of VersaTerm's slick little non-Mac- standard ideas. But all in all, of the terminal emulators I've tried for use in an office environment (that doesn't include Red Ryder/White Knight), PacerLink is the best one I've found. It rather sounds like PacerTerm is aiming to be the best of both worlds. -- /kenw Ken Wallewein A L B E R T A kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca R E S E A R C H (403)297-2660 C O U N C I L