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From: jeffp@phred.UUCP (Jeff Parke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 10.3 Download Quirks
Message-ID: <1925@phred.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 05:42:07 GMT
References: <1294@runx.ips.oz> <426@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeffp@phred.UUCP (Jeff Parke)
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In article <426@ut-emx.UUCP> kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>	...and that VersaTerm downloads (nearly) twice as fast ??!!
>	at least that is my experience when accessing local BBSes running
>	RRhost ... I use the RR-script to get on, start the download with
>	type 2 (other), then switch to VersaTerm and receive in MacBinary ...

Hear! Hear!  I used to be a die-hard RR fan.  Not since getting Versaterm.
However, RR still does a very nice job on login procedures with the macro
language, so I use it as described above.

None of the RR's, including 10.3, have completely kept up with continuous
2400 baud input.  Beyond that, forget it.  Versaterm handles 2400 baud with
ease, and more.

As for up/downloading, I've had compared both at 19.2K for xmodem and kermit,
and I'm afraid Versaterm is easily the winner.

Versaterm was also one of the first packages out with an elegant update to
provide full multifinder awareness.

I have no financial or personal interests in the producers of Versaterm, I just
think there should be more such slickly-done mac applications.
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