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From: iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: ZCOMM is very buggy
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Date: 21 Apr 88 16:42:31 GMT
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After reading the docs on ZCOMM, I thought that it looked liked a very
promising program - not so.  Most of the time it doesn't even run (immediate
hang on startup).  The times it does run, it hangs as soon as I try to
connect (hang=time to *cold* boot).  Has anyone got this to run on your TRUE
BLUE AT?  It sure doesn't work on mine.  For those of you who are wondering,
yes my COM ports are configured correctly, and there were no TSR's or other
resident handlers installed.

Now, about the "documentation": whoever wrote this seems to have a very
large chip on his shoulder - the tone is defensive in the extreme and the
poor organization just about renders the entire 150k manual useless.  The
first four chapters are spent bragging about what a great product this is
and why you should register it.  The rest is basically a scattershot
description of minute details of various commands.  Why I would spend $40
for a typeset copy of this tripe I can't fathom.

Enough zcomm bashing (what should I expect from shareware, right :-).
However, judging from the other programs Chuck has posted, I was considerably
surprised at the lack of functionality of the program.  Since Chuck didn't
post it himself, I'm wondering if this isn't a pre-release or if some other
mistake has been made.  If not, well, it has just about assured that I will
never buy any product from Omen Technology.


- Tim Iverson
  iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU
  ucbvax!cory!iverson