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From: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows Communication Packages
Summary: ftp sources?
Keywords: unicom WinQVT
Message-ID: <1990Mar4.015329.7730@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 90 01:53:29 GMT
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In article <25F059F9.32D2@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> kxb@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck) writes:
>In article <6636@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0159a@prism.gatech.EDU (LEVINSON,MARC LOUIS) writes:
>>Actually, I would like to obtain any public domain or shareware Windows comm
>>pkg, if avail.   Please email info.
>>
>I just got the latest( ? ) version of WinQVT (ver 4.5 I think) and
>am happy with the progress over the older versions. It supports xmodem,
>zmodem, kermit, ymodem and compuserve b. I am having a little trouble 
>with it though. I can't get it to auto-redial and I can't get the kermit
>protocal to work with cms kermit.

Where did you get this version from? The version on SIMTEL is ver
3.84. Simtel also has another package called UNICOM, which seems nice,
except that it has a *very* irritating shareware "register me" message
that pops up far too often for my liking. I installed it with the idea
of testing it, but got so bugged with the message that I gave up.

>I would like a little discussion on this subject. What are some solutions 
>that other people have used?

I also use Telix within a window, finding its power makes me feel very
unhappy with other software. Little things like being able to redefine
my keyboard (so that the infernal Emacs key-commands go away to some
extent) are nice touches in Telix.

I still haven't managed to do reliable zmodem transfer in the
background with *any* software, whether it is Telix running in a
window, or a Windows application running as an icon.  Everytime
something I am doing in the foreground writes to disk, zmodem gets
stuck, and then takes a *long* time to recover. I am beginning to
think that this is a limitation with Windows, not with the software I
am running.

kartik
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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon