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From: dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: RedRyder 9.2 Term Emulation Pro
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 10:12:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 15 10:12:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!dorner    Aug 15 09:12:00 1986


Wayne H. Pollock, {ihnp4,cbatt}!cbnap!whp writes

>The bottom line is, if you need a good reliable terminal emulator, use
>MacTerminal or VersaTerm or some other professional product.  If you try
>Red Ryder,  you might just be throwing your money away.  You certainly won't
>get professional support.  (Another point: I don't believe the author has
>updated the documentation since version 8.0, and I recall that many
>enhancments/features were added since then.)

I don't know about VersaTerm, but I bought MacTerminal back in the dark ages,
when it was all there was.  I certainly don't have to worry about my document-
ation being obsoleted by program enhancements.  The program never did anything
very well, and still does not!  MacTerminal has none of the features of RR or
MicroPhone--no procedures, macros, kermit.  It's slow.  It also likes to
bomb if you change port settings in the middle of a session (like turn flow
control off).

RR is pretty good and pretty cheap.  And with as many customers as there are
for RR, I think it's inevitable that SOMEBODY was going to have a bad
experience with it.  Of course, I'm sure that's easy for me to say, since
I'm not the bad experience-ee, so to speak.

Steve Dorner
dorner@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU