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From: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: procomm (again) Really procomm vs Kermit
Message-ID: <3397@islenet.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 14:05:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: islenet.3397
Posted: Sun Aug  2 14:05:47 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Aug-87 04:20:31 EDT
References: <4491@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <3829@garfield.UUCP> <1736@tekig4.TEK.COM> <636@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
Organization: Islenet Inc.,  Honolulu
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Keywords: kermit procomm

In article <636@uokmax.UUCP> rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd) writes:
>In article <1736@tekig4.TEK.COM> maxg@tekig4.UUCP (Max Guernsey) writes:
>>I've procomm several times, and what I don't understand is why
>>you would pay for procomm, when you can get Kermit free.
>>What am I missing about PROCOMM?
>1. Procomm supports other protocols besides Kermit.  Not everybody in the
>world speaks Kermit, you know.  Procomm handles 9 different comm. protocols.
>
>...Frankly, I don't see Procomm as that expensive.  For $35 for registration
>and diskettes, or $50 for registration and diskettes and the printed manual,
>it's in my opinion the best communication package around.  I've only begun

My registration cost $25 -- if you just register. Let me tell you that
I have not spent $25 better since I've had a modem!

Hell, in Hawaii, it costs more to sit and stare out the window than
it does for Procomm.
 
Cost therefore, becomes a relative thing...

Aloha,

-- 
Jonathan Spangler
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