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From: root@mjbtn.UUCP (Mark J. Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ZCOMM is very buggy
Message-ID: <249@mjbtn.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 11:48:53 GMT
References: <2598@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
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Organization: JobSoft Design & Development, Murfreesboro, TN USA
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Summary: it IS shareware


My understanding of ZCOMM and its status is that it is a share-ware cousin
to ProYamm (a commercial package).  I have had ZCOMM (although I haven't  
yet checked the version of this one against my current copy) for some time
now.  I got my first copy from CompuServe's Unix Forum.  I have pretty much
liked it.  I MUST say that it is a MONSTER in that you have to set everything
up yourself, unlike PROCOMM which takes you by the hand.  It is a lot like
UNIX (concept-wise).  Its "uncoothness" may just be its saving grace.  I used
the original PHODIR.T until I downloaded one from GENIE that someone else
had setup.  When I plugged it in, WOW, it was like I had a new program.  

It is not a pre-release.  This is the intended package.  I haven't really 
dug into it for lack of time.  I like its protocol mechanisms.  I find that
they out-perform any other program I use.  There again though, it IS shareware,
and you must say, that Chuck put a lot of effort into it, readily functional
or not, and he should get credit for that if nothing else.  I does what I
want it to and I am happy.

Mark.

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