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From: ed@plx.UUCP (Ed Chaban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: transformer & comm progs
Message-ID: <384@plx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 17:48:39 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  5 17:48:39 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Dec-86 03:45:02 EST
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> >  Also, since I'm on the subject of Transformer, does anyone know
> >why it doesn't run under WB 1.2 and has anyone ever seen a
> >communications program run under Transformer?  I have tried Procomm,
> >Qmodem, and a comm program I wrote myself to run under Trans- former
> >and have had very little luck.  I can get three or four characters out
> >(or in) the port before it locks up the whole system.  If you can
> >help, please let me know.
> 
>  I tried a comm program (a version of Kermit with vt100 emulation,
> written in Turbo Pascal. I think Columbia might have it; it's called
> QK-Kermit here, anyway.) and it seemed to work OK. That is, it worked
> the way that I expected to, except that it was so insanely slow that
> I got mad and killed it. (Slow means: on a 1200 baud line MUCH slower than
> a real term program running @ 300. Aack!) Brain hurt.
>                                               Rick

I tried Cosi Tango (AKA Synchrony) on my beast before I sold it. 
Like the others, slow as sh*t, virtually useless. Transformer
was a pretty bad joke (i think)

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