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From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 7.0 & Other Terminal Programs
Message-ID: <1242@utai.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 18:22:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 18:22:06 1986
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References: <338@infsc3.hatpoly.UUCP> <8563@amdcad.UUCP> <164@uvicctr.UUCP> <872@umn-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <872@umn-cs.UUCP> waddingt@umn-cs.UUCP (Paul Fink) writes:
>
> Just to add my bit to this. The best alternative to Macterminal for
>PROFESSIONAL use, (other than just talking to BBS's). is VersaTerm.

Talk about asking for trouble... Remember...The Surgeon General has determined
that capital letters may be harmful to your health.

VersaTerm is indeed a very good program.  I use it all the time for
communication with Unix, I really like the Emacs mouse feature and it
supports XMODEM, Kermit, MacBinary and MacTerminal XMODEM.

But I frequently log on a machine at the department from which I am on
leave, which involves: reaching the local PAD by phone, changing it's
set-up, giving a network address, logging on one machine at the other end
and finally doing a remote login to the target machine.  That machine happens
to run VMS, which means that you can't do much editing unless you have a
keypad.  Red Ryder handles this non-trivial login sequence beautifully and
allows me to emulate the keypad in a reasonable fashion.  If only it had
MacTerminal XMODEM and emulated a VT100 correctly...

Professionally yours,
-- 

Jean-Francois Lamy
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal.

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