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From: mark@umbra.gatech.edu (Mark J. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Help!
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Date: 12 Jun 91 21:10:56 GMT
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I'm posting this for a friend of mine.  Please don't e-mail replies to me; use
his address: ce133ei@prism.gatech.edu.  It's repeated below.

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Somebody out there, please hear this and help me out.
 
I have an Atari 800XL with 256K, Spartados X, an XEP80, P:R: Connection, SX212
1050 drive w/US Doubler, AND NO SOFTWARE THAT WILL LET ME USE ALL OF THEM AT
THE SAME TIME!
 
All I want is a terminal program that runs under Spartados X, lets me use the
XEP80, and has an RS232 driver for the P:R:C (that is ALSO compatible with
SPartados X AND the XEP80).
 
So far, every one of the terminal programs I have stubbornly refuse to work
with at least one of the above-mentioned devices.  

850 Express 3.0 doesn't seem to like the XEP80, regardless of what i've been 
told.
Bobterm totally ignores the XEP80 also.
I've also tried amodem 7.4/7.5, omnicom(total lockup no matter what), vterm
(this program seems to do EVERYTHING except talk to the modem.  It hates 
80 cols too.)  Backtalk (dumped back to the command prompt)
 
So far, the most success i've had is by usin the sx212 in direct-connect mode,
and using Sparts 3.2 with Mark Gamber's term80 (uses a graphics 8 version of
an 80-col screen) so I can see 80 cols (just barely) but am missing quite a
lot of nice functions i'd prefer to have.
 
If there's ANYONE out there who can tell me how to get hold of a teminal
package that can use all of my equipment, PLEASE email me at 
ce133ei@prism.gatech.edu.
I would be deeply in your debt.  Oh, o ne thing:  PLEASE don't assume that I
necessarily have the appropriate handlers.  Usually it seems that I don't.
Please assume that I have NO software.  I'd rather have two of something
than none of it.
 
Sorry about the overall tone of this message, but I'm really worn out with
all of this.

P.S. Macros, VT100 support, etc., would be GREAT, but aren't necessary.
I'll beg for that later.
 
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Krenath zantai CharghwI' (Eric Koske)               ce133ei@prism.gatech.edu