Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!cmcl2!vx2!spector
From: spector@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU (David HM Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dreaming of the perfect terminal software
Message-ID: <650020@vx2.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Date: 29 Apr 88 15:37:00 GMT
References: <6970@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: New York University
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Oh,... I can't resist... 

(set gas jets to low broil)
What do you MEAN low quality of Macintosh communications software?!?!?
Ever use CrossTalk on a PC?!?  Or ``tip'' on a Unix machine?

With the exception of RedRyder, most every Macintosh terminal program offers
qualities that would be the envy of any dedicated terminal.  Even "lowly" Mac-
Terminal offers 5 different kinds of file transfer capabilities and is a 
_perfect_ vt102 emulator.  (There isn't ONE DEC package that macTerminal will
NOT work with.)

Granted there are things that one would like to see in a "Grand Unified Terminal
Program"... but there is nothing shabby about any of them and you can
find terminal program that do at least 85% of everything you'd ever want.
(gas jets off)

Seriously, there is no reason to flame Mac comm s'ware... Not even RedRyder
(I just don't like its user interface).
It you wanna see neeto terminal packages for the Macintosh, take a look
at White Pine Software's vt2xx emulators or Abelebeck's (sp?) VersaTerm series.
Pretty impressive for what some silly people still call a "toy computer".

_DHMS


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