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In article <1989Sep12.003227.7169@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Practical Peripheral modems are (supposedly) shipping with a terminal program
>called Macknowledge (which I assume is no relation to the Acknowledge
>communications "toolkit").  The blurbs provided in the P.P. ads don't tell me
>very much about what I want to know about it:
>
	First of all, Practical Peripheral's modem are bundled with MicroPhone
version 1.5, while Prometheous Modems are bundled with MacKnowledge.  I would
check as to which you are buying...
	Now for the details...A couple of months ago Prometheous bought the
Acknowledge package (the whole thing, they now own it) from SuperMac and they
went ahead and create MacKnowledge using Acknowledge (hence the similar name:-)
MacKnowledge is a general purpose communications application, conceptually
similar to MicroPhone or Red Ryder, but with this 'funky psuedo-iconic' 
interface.

>* Does it emulate VT100?  (MS-DOS-oid "ANSI" is *not* acceptable.)
	Yes, but not well...
>* Does it emulate VT102?  (I.e. insert/delete line and character)
	No
>* Does it handle the DEC line-drawing set?
	I believe it handles the VT100/DEC graphics character set
>* How many "function keys" does it support, and how?  Keyboard macros?
	I do not believe that you can assing keyboard equivs to scripts w/o
putting them into the menuBar and then giving the menu a keyEqiv.  There is no
keyboad remapping capability if that is what you need and it does not support
the FKeys on the Extended keyboard.
>  Mouse-y clickbuttons like RedRyder (9.4, I have no knowledge about 10.x)?
>  (If it requires the extended keyboard, forget it.)
	There 'icon pallette' is equivalent to the buttons in RedRyder and
MicroPhone II (ie. clicking one launches a script)
>* Does it have any scripting capabilities?  Icon-based setup is all well and
>  good, but doesn't stand up to the real world all that well.
	It has the complete power of Acknowledge's TAL, if you want to learn
TAL...
>* What's the maximum speed it handles *well* on an SE?
	If you mean how does it keep up with incoming text, it maxes out about
4800 baud...

>
>I plan to get a real communications program (probably MicroPhone II) in the
>future, but upgrading my Mac RAM and getting an external modem are the top
>priorities at the moment and MPII will probably have to wait.
>
	Sounds like a good move to me...

>Thanks in advance,
>++Brandon
>
	No problem...

Disclaimer: I am part of the MicroPhone II Development Team, an although baised
as to my choice of comm product, I do evaluate all of our competitors fairly.

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