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From: schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Richard Schaut)
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Subject: Re: Procomm Plus
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Date: 22 Dec 89 16:31:01 GMT
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In article <1989Dec21.122025.25155@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes:
| 
| >> I've heard of Procomm Plus (I only have Procomm) and I'm wondering if
| >> it is a lot better.  Does it let you use com3 or even com4?  Where could
| >> I get a copy?  I have no access to SIMTEL or BBS.
| 
| I will try not to repeat the useful information already given by
| delong@frith.egr.msu.edu but give some more.  Procomm Plus is not
| shareware at all, but a full commercial product, so it should not be
| available at any ftp site nor BBS.  And, it is true, that Procomm
| does not have, nor is meant to have, full remote capabilities.  The
| same goes for Procomm Plus.  Procomm and Procomm Plus are at their
| best in calling BBSes.  For remote control of a PC see the
| advertisments of commercial programs eg in the PC Maganize.  And
| perhaps someone here will have information on a shareware option?

Just a minor correction.  There is a "Test Drive" version of Procomm Plus
available.  I don't know whether simtel has it, but I pulled it off a
local BBS.  Datastorm still adheres (somewhat) to the shareware concept.
--
Rick

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