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- From: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org (Jesper Kehlet)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Amiga Comms (was RE: Amiga Kiosks?)
- Message-ID: <kehlet.06ka@kehlet.adsp.sub.org>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:56:18 GMT
- References: <kehlet.060m@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> <1992Aug13.142013.4460@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <kehlet.06db@kehlet.adsp.sub.org> <1992Aug21.162454.7251@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Organization: Compos Mentis Software Systems
- Lines: 90
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
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- In article <1992Aug21.162454.7251@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
-
- > A demo would be nice. I'm a bit spoiled by the try-before-you-buy concept
- > at this point. I've been burned by Baud Bandit and MindLink, and am not
- > likely to spend 50 clams on another comm program unless I am *very* impressed
- > by it.
- >
- > BTW, if you can get it to a SAN or ADS fidonet node, you'll get even better
- > coverage.
-
- It will go to SAN.
-
-
- > >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?
- >
- > Good. Although there are legit gripes about XPR, it helps to have that
- > ability in case someone wants to use something you didn't want to implement.
- > Even with his superior ZModem, Jack Radigan still gets ragged on about
- > not having XPR abilities in JRC, though I'd bet not 1 in 5 of the gripers
- > would actually use it :-)
-
- That's quite a problem. A company wanted to do a word processing
- application for OS/2 & Windows here in Denmark. They told the programmers
- to build in functions like count Chars/Words/Lines/Paragraphs etc. etc.
-
- Now the programmers went to the major two client of that company and asked
- them, if they really had a need for it. The answer was simple: "No, be
- it'd be nice!"
-
- So, basically, it all comes down to making money and keeping everybody happy.
-
-
- > >And now for the NComm bug stuff:
- > >
- > > - When trying to open the serial ports in shared mode (3 lines,
- > >
- > > - NComm in general opens the serial port in a bad way. It simply
- > >
- > > - It's SLOW in file transfers. It uses XPR and very badly
- >
- > All but the last, I haven't had trouble with. The last one, I have noticed
- > *plus* seen the same thing in Term. I have the feeling this is an XPRZModem
- > bug instead (tons o' errors, too)
-
- When we go a little beyond the serial.device as we know it, it crashes.
- BTW: not being able to change serial device before starting the program is
- a BAD thing. If you're using RTS/CTS and you're on the wrong serial unit,
- NComm hangs -- it has no time-outs!
-
- KAPOW!
-
-
- > > - 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.
- >
- > I've seen some problems with a few FSE's out there, and that is primarilly
- > why I switched to JRC in the first place. However, JRC I do beleive uses
- > the CON: device, too (pipe in anytime, Jack) so if that's the case, we
- > can't really blame Con: Either way, ANSI doesn't work right, agreed.
-
- We can blame CON: for sure, since it has an ANSI implement lacking a lot
- of things.
-
- So, if you get your hands on cwrite.library (V1.3-something should be on
- SAN), try it, use it for ANSI and you know, what we build into this comms
- package.
-
- Of course, we enhanced it a lot more... you can't really expect to get the
- world in PD software, can you?! ;-)
-
-
- > *******************************************************************************
- > Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS] | fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
- > NCR -- Torrey Pines Development Center | Jeffrey.Grimmett@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
- > ========== "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." =============
- > *******************************************************************************
-
- --
- Jesper Kehlet, Compos Mentis Software Systems -- A Kind Of Magic
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