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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Shareware? Hah!
Message-ID: <622@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 02:25:11 GMT
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I wrote one shareware program.

It was a terminal program called "Smart TTY", for the PC.

It supported simultaneous file transfers or interactive sessions on both
serial ports. It never blocked I/O to the screen, so you could see *what*
the weird garbage you got from your port was (like "File Transfer Aborted"
or "You have 5 minutes left" :->)... anything that wasn't a packet was
displayed. It wasn't a speed demon, because I used the BIOS for maximum
portability, but it could handle 2 1200 baud lines at once through the use
of crufty heuristics and careful screen updates (my early efforts in writing
a curses wannabe back before Ken started letting other machines than Cory
EECS 11/70 use it helped). Just Xmodem and Xmodem CRC, but good emulations
of Vt100 and ADM22 terminals. Pull-down help screen and setup menus. Drag down
screens (really! You could drag down session on COM1 and see what was going on
on COM2). Intended as a tool for people calling up VAXen and their ilk
from a PC.

I asked $35 to get an update and remove the startup message that read:


	"Send $35 to stop me printing this obnoxious message and to
	get an updated version of this program"

or something like that.

I got 3 letters from people wanting me to add features before they'd send
their $35, and one guy claiming he wanted a free copy for a review. Wouldn't
say what his magazine was.

Shareware, hah!
-- 
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