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From: c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Various observations
Keywords: ProTERM bugs, life
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Date: 9 Oct 88 23:32:43 GMT
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Reply-To: c60c-3aw@web-3d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
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A couple of odd things...

1) While I'm among the first to praise ProTERM, it does have some rather
   odd bugs.  For instance, I connected my //gs to a Toshiba 1200 (IBM
   compatible) and tried to talk at 19200 baud.  All we got was garbage.  After
   dropping it to 2400 baud, everything worked fine.

   Acting on past experience (explained next), I switched to Z-Link.  Had no
   problems with talking, and an Xmodem transfer worked just fine.

2) When trying to upload software using Ymodem to an IBM BBS, ProTERM had
   problems (errors right off the bat).  Z-Link worked perfectly.  Note that I
   haven't had any problems with ProTERM when talking to other Apple systems,
   but have had problems when uploading files to UNIX (errors on last block, a
   very unpleasant situation after a large transfer).

3) As anybody who reads Open-Apple knows, BASIC.SYSTEM v1.2 has a grand total
   of 24 bytes changed.  Some errors that were mentioned (the TOTENT bug)
   weren't even fixed.  A large number of bugs inherent in BASIC.SYSTEM have,
   as usual, been ignored.

4) My modem (a Zipper 2400, actually a Prometheus ProModem 2400G) doesn't
   return numerical codes after hanging up, so ProTERM never realizes that
   the phone was hung up.  Note that it DOES recognize a busy signal, so it
   probably isn't related to the init string.  Anybody have similar probs?

5) What happened to the GIF files at husc6.harvard.edu?  Last time I looked
   they were gone.

6) Has anybody played "Pirates!" for the GS?  A pretty slick game, with fairly
   nice graphics, animation, etc.  It also happens to be written in Applesoft.

7) I had a 5.25 disk packed with DDD which I wanted to unpack.  Problem is, I
   don't have a 5.25 drive here.  I was very impressed with Digipack GS; not
   only did it unpack the disk to my RAM disk, it fixed the ProDOS disk map
   to reflect the fact that it was 512K.  Too bad DDD Deluxe doesn't support
   this sort of thing.

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