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Article #6602Re: Re: PD Communications Program Wanted
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 20 May 1986 14:04
Date: Tue, 20 May 1986 14:04
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> > Discussion of Crosstalk and PROCOMM, each with advocates.
>
> I am currently using PibTerm, even though it has a number of glaring flaws.
Such as... none of the communications protocols work at all.
> I have used both Crosstalk and PROCOMM in their latest versions. I would
> not suggest anybody buy Crosstalk unless they really want to spend money
> or have already tried PROCOMM. Crosstalk has a number of problems. It
> doesn't seem to do flow control particularly well, has no conditional
> capabilities (the WHEN command, I think its called, just plain DOES NOT
> WORK and NEVER HAS),
Gee, I used to use it all the time back before I gave up & wrote my own
program just to get a decent VT100 emulation..
> and doesn't handle pathnames particularly well. On
> top of that the interface is getting just a little old.
Aww... good old Crosstalk isn't as bad as all that...
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-- Peter da Silva
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