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Subject: PC Transporter
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Date: 2 Mar 89 06:18:00 GMT
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Recently someone commented disparagingly about the PC Transporter.
Although I don't use mine for much more than copying Text and
WordPerfect files onto IBM format disks, it seems to work just fine.
(My son brought home an old copy of Pagemaker that we loaded up just for
the fun of it -- except that it was too old to really support my printer
it worked just perfectly, mouse and all.)  (This is on a GS).

I have only run into two problems with it.  (1) -- the New Finder spends
a lot of time polling the PCT's drive; Applied Engineering says that's
Apple's problem.  (2) -- the most recent versions of IBM Kermit
(MS-Kermit, actually) can't handle 2400 baud, even after the recent
fixes in the commo area that AE put out.  The problem appears to be in
the screen emulation, not in the commo side since it DOES transfer files
perfectly (its kind of neat to be able to use 1000 byte packets.)

Anyone from either Apple or Applied engineering able to comment on
either of the problems?