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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Best IIGS modem h/w & s/w - Reply
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Date: 5 Oct 88 06:20:27 GMT
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>In article <1799@puff.cs.wisc.edu> koehn@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Brad Koehn) writes:
>So what? 
>
>I am a former (as of 7-88) Apple ][ series user. I was devout to the machine,
>until I got my Mac (after nearly 7 years of computing on the ][). Believe me,
>ProTerm is nothing to "rave" about. That program just, well, isn't. In terms
>of power, it doesn't come close to AE Pro, really. Look at a term Program for
>the Amiga (or Mac), which allows you to download, upload, chat, and run
>another totally different application at the same time! Now, granted, the

What can AE Pro do that ProTERM can't do equally as well [or more likely,
BETTER]?

A small side note is that someone I know recently said that he not only liked 
ProTERM as a terminal program, but as a utility...The person that said
that knows very little about computers, but it is a fairly valid statement.

If I want to copy a FEW files around from one disk to another, I often
just boot up ProTERM and use the disk utilities...[Using my 512K Ramdisk
as a replacement for the 2nd drive so I don't have to disk swap as much]...

The same goes for writing or editing a simple text/Appleworks file...The
editor is MUCH better than AEs...That's what I hated about AE, the really
lame line-based editor!

I use ProTERM as a utility mainly because of my laziness [it's the disk
that's already in the drive!], but it is quite capable of doing many 
things besides being a terminal program...

Obviously, however, its purpose is being a terminal program, which it
does VERY well...

ProTERM 2.1 is going to have more features, of which I may have mentioned
a few days ago...It will have Zmodem and other new stuff...

Following is by Andy McFadden:
>If you look at ProTERM, it's strength isn't in supporting rarely-used features
>(although it does), but rather in being a COMPLETE term program.  All things
>considered, there are very few things it CAN'T do.

I agree with that...as you can obviously tell from my text above...


	-The Unknown User