Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Commware Message-ID: <8803170233.aa09266@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 16 Mar 88 15:46:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 "Larry W. Virden" writes: >...the point in this is in accessing such minor services such as >Compuserve, >Bix, Delphi, Genie, AppleLink, colleges, universities, local BBS, etc. Gee, I didn't think any of those services (other than colleges and universities which generally don't support Xmodem) supported terminal emulation. I gather, however, that your (implied) point is that you'd like to have only ONE piece of commware for all of those purposes. Perhaps if we could talk Ted Medin into incorporating Xmodem into Kermit? :-) Seriously, ProTERM may be just the thing for your "ideal." For the price (very little $$$), I don't mind learning two programs- say Kermit, which is truly low cost ;-), for emulation and mainframe file transfer and TIC or ZLINK for the rest ($35 or less). I have noticed that Commodore based BBS's get VERY confused by Apple DOS 3.3 text files (because the high bit is set) and MS-DOS bbs's get even more confused by them (because they don't include LF after CR in addition to having the high bit set). One nice thing about SOFTERM (yeah, I know it's too expensive) is that the high bit can be cleared (and LF added after CR if need be) as part of the transfer command (a feature I'd be more likely to find useful in ZLINK or TIC than terminal emulation). --------------------- Disclaimer: I like my opinions better than my employer's anyway... (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) ARPA: sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu Murphy A. Sewall BITNET: SEWALL@UCONNVM School of Business Admin. UUCP: ...ihnp4!psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL University of Connecticut