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From: ganzer@cod.NOSC.MIL (Mark T. Ganzer)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: TAPCIS: information?
Message-ID: <3158@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 27 Jun 91 14:47:10 GMT
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Much of what is done by TAPCIS is also performed by AUTOSIG, a FREE program
written by Vern Buerg an Don Watkins, and available in CompuServe's IBMCOM
forum library 1, and is also available on SIMTEL in the CIS directory. I 
haven't really tried TAPCIS much, however from following the discussions on 
CIS comparingthe two programs, it appears that they comparable in handling
forum messages, but that TAPCIS better integrates access to the file libraries.
There are utilities available for AUTOSIG that do the same. TAPCIS also uses
the B+ protocol for file downloads, which I understand is a little more
robust that the Quick B protocol used in AUTOSIG.

After looking at the pluses and minuses of both programs, I decided that for
my own casual use of CompuServe, (why read CIS when there is USENET?) I 
couldn't justify the cost of TAPCIS and have stayed with AUTOSIG.  
-- 
Mark T. Ganzer                    Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
Internet: ganzer@nosc.mil         Compu$erve: 73617,442