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- From: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
- Subject: Re: VersaTerm
- Message-ID: <1h7o7jINNbhp@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:53:39 GMT
- References: <1h4k1eINNc4n@castor.hahnemann.edu> <BznEMC.JCx@unix.portal.com>,<owen-221292095114@rowen.astro.washington.edu>
- Reply-To: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
- Organization: California State University, Chico
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- Since I know Lonnie is out there listening, I'll also add my $.02 about
- VersaTerm. I am also a long-time satisfied customer, with a few trivial
- complaints.
-
- In article <owen-221292095114@rowen.astro.washington.edu>, owen@astro.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
- >
- >It's a great program with a few limitations. Getting the bad stuff out of
- >the way first...
- >- only one window even for multiple sessions (e.g. telnet);
- > this is telnet users who connect to multiple computers,
- > and is why I presently use NCSA Telnet instead
- I also find the single window to be a limitation. I prefer NCSA's multiple
- window implementation. There are occasions when I would like to have two
- sessions both visible to me on the screen at the same time. I can't do this
- w/ VersaTerm.
-
- >The gripes aside, VersaTerm is superb, a paragon of fine Macintosh
- >programming. It's one of the best terminal emulation programs available,
- >AND a very good deal, as well. For less than $100 (mail-order) you get:
- >- lots of TCP/IP stuff, including MacTCP, FTP client (nearly as good as
- >Fetch),
- I also think the FTP client is very good, with one exception. I would like
- to see the addition of a "transfer rate" statistic, showing bytes/sec
- transferred, both during the transfer and a final (avg.) rate when the
- transfer is complete. Fetch shows these statistics and they are useful,
- especiailly as I play with SLIP and try to determine its performance at
- different baud rates.
-
- -Robin
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