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From: jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Background file transfer WANTED
Message-ID: <355@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 00:14:44 GMT
References: <2341@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jjw@igloo.UUCP (John Welch)
Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL
Lines: 23
Keywords: background file transfer
Summary: BackComm and SideTalk

In article <2341@cup.portal.com> Steven_M_List@cup.portal.com.UUCP writes:
   (looking for terminal emulator that runs in background)
>The two key issues are: a solid terminal emulator (that's almost every
>one out there); the ability to do background file transfers.

Well, I've had experience with 2 that can do this, BackComm and Sidetalk.
Of the two, I am more familiar with BackComm (LaSalle Micro, Schaumburg, Il)
aving been the author of it. It works, but it is quite intimidating to the
novice user,and the manual is the pits. However, it IS STILL pretty good, and
once you get it all set up it runs like a champ. It does emulate various
terminals, although the VT100 is pretty lame.
	Sidetalk (Lattice, someplace in Illinois) also runs in background. It
uses less RAM than BC, but seems considerably less flexible. That *CAN* be a
good thing, if you're not really technically inclined. We have used this only
for a short while, at my current job, so I cannot really evaluate it (besides,
I'm kind of prejudiced anyways ;-).
	Sidetalk is around $100, BackComm was last seen at around $140.

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