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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Cat-Fur
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Date: 8 Mar 90 00:10:03 GMT
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wilken@plains.UUCP (Scott Wilken) writes:

[ to someone asking for Cat-Fur source so that it could be adapted to external
	modems ]

>You wont be able to accomplish this if you want it to be compatable with
>the actual Apple-Cat modems for transfer.

[ harward dependence of Cat-Fur on the half duplex 1200 baud mode in the
	base Apple Cat II, which is Bell 202 and is not compatible with
	the full duplex standard used by external modems, Bell 212 ]

[ something about Cat Fur being useless for common file transfer ]

That I disagree with. Not only was Cat Fur cool in that you could transfer at
1200 baud without the 212 option, you could also keep up a two way 'talk' style
chat during the transfer! My friends and I used this a lot, We'd be downloading
stuff and the Sysop of the BBS would start chatting through the Cat-Fur, as
those were the days where a typical DDD'd game disk would still take 20 minutes
at 1200 baud.

If anyone has source for Cat-Fur, do post it, or at least Email it to me too.
I've always wanted some good programming examples for the thing, as well as
a look at how the program was organized because Cat-Fur struck me as one of the
most efficient comm programs I have ever seen.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu