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- From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Kiosks?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.142013.4460@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
- Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
- References: <l5xmf!a.harlock@netcom.com> <petter.03o9@pnilsen.UUCP> <kehlet.060m@kehlet.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 14:20:13 GMT
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- In article <kehlet.060m@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet) writes:
-
- >> Phone, cable or the TV-TEXT encoding in the TV-signal can be used. The makers
- >> of NComm is heavily into the communication part of this program.
- >> InfoChannel is (basicly) a larger version of Scala.
-
- >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.
-
- >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? :-)
-
- >And about the serial comms: it allocates the serial in a BAAAD manner, not
- >even freeing all of it, if something goes wrong, so you have to reboot to
- >get rid of the 2-3 serial ports, NComm opened.
-
- Ever contact Torkel about this? I personally haven't seen this happen, but
- maybe there's a common denominator.
-
- >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!).
-
- >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?
-
- >Sorry, I let it out here, but Torkel has never answered my letters. I even
- >suggested him to do the serial & ANSI perfect, but he never even bothered
- >to answer...
-
- Well.. disregard my earlier. I'm too lazy to go edit it out :-)
-
-
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