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From: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows comm programs
Message-ID: <6166@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 90 05:11:10 GMT
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Reply-To: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <27246@cup.portal.com> MJB@cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr) writes:
>I bought Crosstalk for Windows last weekend. I'm NOT impressed!
>
>I would say that it is not very user friendly
>
>The phonebook, which I consider to be the gateway, is, IMHO, poorly
>designed. Details upon request.
>
>What other full bodied comm programs are out there...

I have been using Crosstalk for Windows for some time now and find it to be at
least average. I agree that the Phone Book is poorly designed. I believe that
the features are mainly ports from the DOS equivalents. There are two other 
pakages I have heard of. One is called APE; it was reviewed in a PC Magazine
First Look article and I can't remember the Company's name. The other is 
Dynacomm. It was the first out and I believe MS uses it extensively. There
product support folks regularly recommended it before DCA shipped XTALK for 
Windows. It also got good reviews in several Pubs. I have seen it advertised,
but have yet found someone who carries it. Of course, I was too lazy to call
the makers directly.

I am satisfied with Xtalk and since I use WIN386 I also can run my procomm
software in a window. Background file transfers are the plus for me right
now and Xtalk has a pretty extensive script language.

Here's my two questions:

	1. How do you mark text to be copied in the Xtalk window, and
	2. Has anyone used Dynacomm? What do you think?

I will summerize if you email me.

Richard Oppenheimer
Computer Science Center
University of Maryland, College Park
oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu