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From: rjd@linus.UUCP (Robert DeBenedictis)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacTerminal
Message-ID: <427@linus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 12:36:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 12:36:20 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Jun-85 07:37:05 EDT
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Reply-To: rjd@linus.UUCP (Robert DeBenedictis)
Organization: The MITRE Coporation, Bedford, MA
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Summary: 

In article <2661@decwrl.UUCP> harrow@exodus.DEC writes:
>I'm kind of saddened by the constant "beating" on MacTerminal....
>There may be some problems, but, developers:  IT WAS A GOOD JOB!
>
>Jeff

Here Here!  I have tried most of the popular programs (Macterminal,
RedRider, Freeterm, Kermit, and others but not Versaterm) and I find MacT to
be one of the nicest.  I like the way it handles the terminal "window." You
can click and drag on it to select a piece of text for saving or printing,
and it has normal scroll bars so you can easily refer back to old stuff if
you want.

MacT advantages:  Works cleanly and logically.  Never loses chars when you
interupt it with a command.  Has built in phone functions.  Saves scrolled
text an "infinite screen".  Has "print selection" command for easy printing
of text.  Saves comm. parameters and phone numbers in "documents" so its
easy to access different remote machines.  Does _excellent_ vt-100 emulation
including bold, reverse, 132-col., status lights, etc.

Small problems (v1.1 -- not the latest):  It's hard to convince it to
receive files onto other disks.  There is a small but sometimes annoying bug
which causes the disk to run at random times.  It doesn't provide any way to
store command procedures like RedRider (a feature of questionable
importance).  Doesn't handle Binary transfers (again, I'm speaking of v1.1).

Overall I think Macterminal has a lot to offer.  If it handled Binary
transfers, I'd probably never use anything else