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- From: dmeyers@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Communications software
- Keywords: Modems
- Message-ID: <dmeyers.724714986@mal-s2>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 21:43:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.162313.16422@walter.cray.com>
- Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU
- Organization: Georgia Tech Res. Inst./Modeling & Analysis Lab
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- In <1992Dec16.162313.16422@walter.cray.com> kuz@craig.cray.com (Brian Kuznia) writes:
-
- >I recently acquired a Mac IIsi. My previous system was a dumb terminal
- >and modem for remote computing. With the Mac at home, I am looking for
- >a good communications package to talk to the outside world. Besides
- >connecting to work, I would like to beable to connect to bullentin boards.
- >I would like to beable to up/down load files. I have no experience in this
- >area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
- I recommend Zterm. It is shareware, very inexpensive, available
- by anon. ftp from sumex and other archives, very responsive (even
- decently quick on a MacPlus!), and has zmodem for up/downloads.
-
- Try it out. Won't cost a thing to try. If it doesn't suit your
- needs, then perhaps you might want to look at commercial packages,
- all of which cost at least 3 or 4 times as much.
-
- --David
- --
- -- David S. Meyers (dmeyers@math.gatech.edu)
-