Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Path: utzoo!utgpu!topix
From: topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (R. Munroe)
Subject: ZTerm - Wow!
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.040335.16036@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 04:03:35 GMT

I'm using ZTerm 0.85 on my Mac at home.  I use it to connect with a
general purpose unix account at the University of Toronto (my Internet
gateway).  My modem is 2400 baud.

Something neat just happened and I was wondering if this is a feature
of most comm applications, or ZTerm just happens to be a very
bright software package.  I was in the middle of downloading a 
binhex'd file when things just locked up.  The Mac didn't crash
but the transfer halted for some reason.  Rather than wait and see
if it was just a delay, I turned my modem off and back on again to
break the connection.  I then logged back in to UofT and started
sending the file again.  Much to my surprise, ZTerm picked up
where it left off - remember, I had broken the connection but had not
exited from ZTerm (I did hit the cancel button in ZTerm's progress window, 
though).  What a very nice feature.  I even got a message
in the progress window saying the the transfer had resumed.

Once ZTerm's vt100 emulation is a bit better (ever try to vi a file?),
I can't imagine a better package around.

Bob Munroe
TOPIX Computer Graphics + Animation, Inc.
topix@utcs.utoronto.ca

416.971.7711