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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Other than Dnet ...
- Message-ID: <65407@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 04:14:53 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Sep5.010448.28110@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <65333@cup.portal.com>
- Lines: 67
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- In article <65333@cup.portal.com> I wrote:
-
- | In article <1992Sep5.010448.28110@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- | kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth John Aarts) writes:
- |
- | | Other than Dnet, what communications programs can I use to transfer files
- | | between my amiga and a unix account in the background while still maintaing
- | | an interactive session?
- | |
- | | I will be trying to set up slip soon, so I am looking for something
- | | different yet. (All over a v.32 connection)
- |
- | Any comm program supporting Ymodem-BATCH or zmodem transfers should work
- | just fine for your stated purpose.
- |
- | The two I use are Handshake and AZcomm (simply because I have them and have
- | been using them for years for just that purpose), and I'm sure there are many
- | others that will also function satisfactorily (including Kermit).
-
- Arrgh!
-
- As someone kindly pointed out, the guy wanted to continue an interactive
- session with the UNIX box, not with the Amiga console.
-
- As many who've used Amigas since Day 1 can attest, some comm programs have
- NOT been system-friendly and have taken-over the machine.
-
- So, as I try to weasel-out of this gaffe (:-), lemme say there IS a way to do
- what the original requester wanted, using uwindows and Meshugena.
-
- From Meshugena's (aka VT220's) docs (and I believe the program can be found
- on a Fish Disk (sorry, my index is not online at present)) ... note the item
- flagged by "===>" regarding multiple sessions:
-
- Meshugena V1.0 -- A **VT220 terminal emulator
- Copyright 1988
- By Michael S. Leibow
- [...]
- This program offers:
- o VT220 emulation (80 and 132 columns)
- Not a fake emulation... This emulation covers everything I could
- find in the VT220 owners manual except the printer stuff.
- f.
- + 7 and 8 bit character sets
- + Multinational Character Sets (c0, c1, GL, and GR)
- + Special Graphics set
- + emulates full LK201 keyboard (VT52, VT100, VT220)
- + VT52, VT100, and VT220 compatibility
- + terminal modes : (KAM, IRM, SRM, LNM, DECCKM, DECANM, DECCOLM,
- DECSCLM, DECSCNM, DECAWM, DECARM)
- + All character renditions : (off, bold, underscore, blinking,
- reverse, erasable, not_erasable)
- + All Line Renditions : (normal, double width, double height).
- + ANSI tab stuff.
- + Probably more which I forgot...
- ==> o Multiple sessions
- + each session has its own set-up configuration
- + independent menus
- + separate windows each with scroll bars and other gadgetry
- o Transcript buffer
- + 0 to some_big_number lines of output history
- o Works well in workbench environment
- + can start from icon.
- + all errors shown in requesters
- o window iconification to save chip ram
- o easy to use user interface
- [...]
-