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From: see1@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: looking for a terminal program
Message-ID: <2297@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 19:50:36 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 19:50:36 1987
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Reply-To: see1@sphinx.UUCP (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
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In article <372@auscso.UUCP> mentat@auscso.UUCP (Robert Dorsett) writes:

>I recommend VersaTerm or VersaTerm Pro unreservedly....

>VersaTerm supports MacBinary (Mac-Mac file transfers), Mac Xmodem (MacTerm-
>inal-Mac file transfers, which can be done remotely), vanilla Xmodem, and
>Kermit.  VT Pro supports all that, plus a couple of strange ones called 
>"Binary Kermit" and "MacBinary Kermit."

Actually, plain ol' VersaTerm has Binary Kermit and MacBinary Kermit
(I'm using 3.0, but my manual is from 2.10).  And what's strange about Binary
Kermit?  It's what I use to download _programs_, instead of Text Kermit,
for obvious reasons.  (What you call "vanilla Xmodem" is listed as
"Text Xmodem" in the menu).

Just a minor quibble...but thanks for explaining what MacBinary was.  I
couldn't figure it out from the manual!  (To quote the author, "As you become
more familiar with transferring data, you will understand that a whole book
could be written on this subject.  Something I don't intend to do here."
I noticed :-) )


Ellen Keyne Seebacher
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