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From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix
Summary: These problems are not in my experience.
Keywords: telix
Message-ID: <8239@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 01:00:12 GMT
References: <5269@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <84649@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: Greyston Business Services, Inc.
Lines: 44

Quoth mms@sun.UUCP (Michael Silverstein) in <84649@sun.uucp>:
|In article <5269@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> James Webster Birdsall writes:
|>*>    In response to the argument over whether Telix is any good or not:
|>*> It seems to be OK but it can't handle 8N1! Or, rather, it can handle 8N1
|>*> but you have to leave the setting as 7E1 or get garbage on the screen.

This is news to me!  What version are you using?  I have no problem with 8N1,
have been using Telix from 3.0 to the current 3.11.  Do you have your dialing
directory entry set up correctly?

|I found the same thing! I started using Telix, & it seemed that
|some sites had switched to 7E1. Something's a bit strange, however;
|BBS's running RBBS are still accessible with 8N1.

I use some SCO Xenix 2.3.1 systems with the new %#$*@%$#%@ getty 
that require 8N1, and have had no such trouble.
Or anywhere else, for that matter.

|Another minor possible complaint: The Kermit options don't include
|block check level 3 (CRC). So file transfers are done with single
|byte check sums.

Colin Sampaleanu makes no bones that he has incorporated an old version 
of Kermit, and that people who want more advanced features should install
an external version.  He may implement the advanced features in the next 
major release... and has stated that he will implement all the advanced 
features of the latest Zmodem-DSZ releases.

|Overall, I agree. Telix is pretty good. Have you noticed that it
|owes alot to Qmodem? It has similar features, key definitions, and
|"look and feel"

As does Procomm+...  if a user interface works, why change it?
I've tried all the shareware packages out there, and have settled on
Telix as the best balance of power and ease of use... the SALT language
alone makes it more powerful than anything out there.

It's pretty good, but what software is perfect?

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