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From: cthulhu@athena.MIT.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU
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Subject: Opening com port...
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 00:36:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 00:36:48 1986
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From: cthulhu@athena.MIT.EDU

I've been playing around with Maxicorp's Maxicomm (it's good for what
it is, which isn't much... vanilla term w/xmodem & AmigaBinary), but there's
one real annoyance I've found;  it doesn't actually open the comm port.
Thus, the only way I've been able to get it to work is by writing a program
that opens the port, then letting AmigaBasic keep the ^!&@%#^@# thing open!
I'm using a novation SmartCat Plus (hayes compatible) connected with a 
straight-thru cable... Anyone else have this problem?  If there was some
way to start an application for AmigaBasic, then my modem-opening redialer
program could just start Maxicomm, but alas... Incidentally, if there's
anyone else out there with MaxiComm, have you found a good UNIX terminal
driver that it emulates?  Closest I've come is ansi, but it's not so great...
					- Jim Reich
					  (cthulhu@athena.mit.edu)