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- From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Amiga Kiosks?
- Message-ID: <kehlet.06db@kehlet.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:17:36 GMT
- References: <l5xmf!a.harlock@netcom.com> <petter.03o9@pnilsen.UUCP> <kehlet.060m@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> <1992Aug13.142013.4460@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
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- In article <1992Aug13.142013.4460@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
- > In article <kehlet.060m@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet) writes:
-
- > >Too bad! NComm is full of bugs, try to be professional, shareware, and now
- > >they even want to make Torkel do work on another package?
- >
- > Beg pardon, but could you follow-up and be more specific? With the exception
- > of 2.03 (a hacked pirate version), I've found no more bugs in NComm than in
- > JRComm, and far less than Term, Baud Bandit, or ATalk III.
-
- I'll be more specific later on.
-
-
- > >It's not, that I have anything thing against his programming -- I haven't
- > >seen one bit, but the ANSI bug, the SLOOOOW speed, the nasty setup, the
- > >square look of it... nah, there's too much wron with it.
- >
- > Actually, it sounds like you're talking about version 1.921, which was free,
- > so what's to gripe about? :-)
-
- Nope! The *REAL* 2.0. Shareware version, not anything like bogus 2.03 or
- freeware 1.921. ;-)
-
-
- > >It might not be perfect yet, but it's BLAZINGLY fast, it does perfect
- > >ANSI/VT-100 (and will be doing VT-220) -- even IBM ANSI (there's a bug with
- > ><ESC>[2J in IBM ANSI).
- > >
- > >Even in 16 color mode, it scrolls a screen full of colored ANSI graphics so
- > >fast, you can't possibly keep up with it...
- >
- > What is this, BlazeMongerComm or something? And is not being able to keep up
- > with a screen a good thing?
- >
- > Seriously, if you are writing a comm program, more power to you. Just make
- > sure you address all your gripe's with NComm and combine the best features
- > of all the good programs out there. (personally, a lookalike of Access! would
- > be great!).
-
- It's finished and ready for shipping at a price of US $50 or so when it
- reaches you.
-
- A demo will be out soon, so I need to know how to put that one up for ftp.
-
-
- > >Good programming of the serial.device gives ~238 cps throughput on normal
- > >Zmodem (built in) transfers -- I'd be surprised if I'd ever see NComm go
- > >beyond 230...
- >
- > Not using the XPR libraries, are we?
-
- Sure ain't! ;-) Built-in transfer protocols to reduce the library
- overhead, that is of great importance when doing file transfers...
-
- XPR *WILL* be available in the future, but why use them if the built-in are
- faster and even more reliable?
-
- Besides you get a lot more flexibility with built-in protocols.
-
- And now for the NComm bug stuff:
-
- - When trying to open the serial ports in shared mode (3 lines,
- actually) and it fails, it doesn't close down what it has already
- opened, so a reboot is necessary.
-
- - NComm in general opens the serial port in a bad way. It simply
- won't work under future revisions of OS.
-
- - It's SLOW in file transfers. It uses XPR and very badly
- implements this, thus it gets major overhead on those XPR
- libraries.
-
- - The ANSI is awfully implemented. I have experienced problems
- with at least 30 BBS's here in Denmark and more than 50 foreign
- ones. I think this relates to the fact, that NComm uses CON:
- compatible ANSI, so it's very non-compatible.
-
- - It's screen/ANSI is SOOOOOOO slow... Probably a CON: problem,
- too...
-
- I could give you a lot more, but let's keep this posting down in size...
- ;-))
-
-
- > Jeff Grimmett
-
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