Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!garth!walter From: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Advice re. Terminal Emulator Message-ID: <866@garth.UUCP> Date: 3 Jul 88 06:43:10 GMT References: <22940@labrea.Stanford.EDU> <6971@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: walter@garth.UUCP (Walter Bays) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 48 In article <6971@cup.portal.com> David_Alan_Newman@cup.portal.com writes: >> I am looking for advice about a terminal emulator... > >+------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ >| Dave Newman |david_alan_newman@cup.portal.com | >| Software Ventures Corp. | | >+------------------------------------+---------------------------------+ >| Disclaimer: We are the manufactuer for MicroPhone 1.1 & II. | >| Any opinion expressed here about MicroPhone is certainly | >| biased! | >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ I have nothing to do with Software Ventures, so MicroPhone is not numbered among my many biases. >We have been using the Trailblazer modem with great success here at >Software Ventures. MicroPhone II supports hardware handshake, and its >VT100/102 emulation has been greatly improved. VI, Emacs, All-In-One, >etc. no longer give MicroPhone fits. The scripting language is vastly >more powerful now. Variables, expression analyzer, etc. There is support >for Kermit and Kermit servers as well. The scripting language has all the power of a programming language, or you can just point and click. For example, I have an on-screen button that invokes Kermit on Unix, gives me a file selection dialogue to select a file for upload, if it is not a legal Unix file name, gives me a dialogue box to rename the file, issues the command to Unix-Kermit, sends the file, and quits. > The character throughput at 9600, >though faster now, is still not going to be 9600. Also, we do not >support VT220. It's MUCH faster than 1.0. Fast enough that I no longer envy the MS-DOSers their antique character displays. They implemented a 'copy table' command, so you can copy host data into a DA spreadsheet (or Excel for those with MultiFinder and GB of memory), do some calculations, and copy it back. About the only drawback to Microphone 2.0 is its' steep price. (Though I got a cheap upgrade from 1.0 :-):-) For business use it's worth every penny of list price. I wouldn't mess with anything else to save a few bucks. For personal use at full price... I don't know... It sure is nice... So are lots of other things you could spend the money on. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My opinions are my own. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. E-Mail route: ...!pyramid!garth!walter (415) 852-2384 USPS: Intergraph APD, 2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, California 94303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------