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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: VersaTerm 3.2 (Was: VT100 emulators)
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Date: 4 May 88 15:34:12 GMT
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In article <6445@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> dfs059@Mipl3.JPL.Nasa.Gov writes:
>I have tried a number of terminal emulators, and the only one I have
>been happy with is VersaTerm, by Lonnie Abelbeck.  It supports the
>pass-thru you mentioned, is the most faithful vt100 emulator I have
>seen, and best of all, is very well supported.  Each new version that
>comes our way seems to have every feature we were hoping would get
>added.  I spend 8 hours a day in VersaTerm (ah, the wonders of
>multi-finder and multiple monitors!), and am extremely happy with it.

Ditto on everything above.  I just got Rev. 3.2, and the two complaints I
had with it have been corrected -- Auto-Redial now recognizes BUSY and other
Hayes modem responses, and it runs in the background, which means I can set
my Mac to Attack Modem status and go write Mother's Day letters in Word.

3.2 also has improved MultiFinder capability; Y-Modem; a ton of Kermit
parameters; a flag for making the program go local temporarily; Remote file
transfer (haven't read up on this, but it seems that if you have a Mac
running unattended with VersaTerm 3.2 and a modem set up for auto answer,
you can call up from another Mac and do file transfer using this.  Looks
boss.); default save folders (instead of volumes); option of express
file-transfer (no CRC checks); vt100 fonts; auto-zoom in MultiFinder
(anytime you put VT in the background, it automatically zooms into a tiny
window near the trash can.  Move it to the foreground, and it resumes it's
normal size).

And probably some stuff I've forgotten.  I use it about four hours a day,
and it is the single most useful (and most-used) program I've got for the
Mac.

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