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From: matt@pacvax.UUCP (Matt Kingman)
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Subject: Re: Anyone know about the new PacerLink
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Date: 19 Jun 91 19:56:53 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.162400.12566@cs.utk.edu> saluzzo@hydra1a.cs.utk.edu 
(Brian Saluzzo) writes:
> Does anyone out there know anything else about the new
> version of PacerLink that someone from Pacer Software
> said was being released.  Supposedly, it was going to`
> list for around $250 (and hopefully retail for a heck
> of a lot cheaper!) and be available everywhere, not
> just direct.  It is supposed to be the easiest and
> fastest tool around.  

I try not to refer to PacerTerm as the "new" PacerLink.  It's a distinctly 
new product written from the ground up, although, it does share many 
features with PacerLink, like SoftKeys and KeyMappings.  PacerTerm does 
not "replace" PacerLink.  Support and sales of PacerLink will continue.  
PacerTerm lists for $249 and is available from us now and should be available 
through your favorite mail order place real soon (we've already shipped 
shrink-wrapped kits to our distributor).  I'm sure the mail order prices 
will be significantly less expensive.

> As a side note, I am using Pacerlink 5.0 to connect
> into the UNIX system here and I am getting nowhere
> with file transfers.  I've tried all of the available
> transfer, send. and receive options on pacerlink and
> every possible setting for unix and kermit under unix
> that I can think of.  I, too, like ZTerm, but also
> love the softkey feature of PacerLink.  Unfortunately,
> if I can't download files to and from my Macintosh, Pacer
> Link isn't a whole lot of good then.  Interesting, though,
> is the fact that I can download files FROM my mac to a
> VMS machine but not from the VMS machine to my mac and
> neither way under UNIX.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreiciated.

Your problem with UNIX is that PacerLink only supports PacerFT file 
transfers (unlike PacerTerm which supports PacerFT, Text, XMODEM, ZMODEM, 
and Kermit).  In order to perform file transfers with your UNIX machine, 
you need to be running the PacerLink host software which you are not (I 
know, I checked).  However,  your university does have PacerLink on VMS.  
I'm not sure what's causing your 1-way VMS problem, but if you email me 
some more info, I can help you out.

/Matt
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Matt Kingman
Macintosh Software Engineer
Pacer Software Inc.
I speak only for myself...