Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!muller From: muller@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Apple II Communications Programs Message-ID: <1710@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:36:02 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1710 Posted: Thu Aug 23 00:36:02 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:11:46 EDT Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:dadlab:-12900:inmet:17900028:000:1283 Nf-From: inmet!muller Aug 14 09:56:00 1984 *** I have been using TERMEXEC for 6 or 7 months, and have generally been happy with it. It has unattended file transfer (receiving long files requires the host to honor XON/XOFF, of course), a system for creating macros, and an editor for editing any text file. The editor is not the fastest in the world, but is is quite useful, especially since it handles's and ends- of-lines the way a typewriter does, rather than the way a word-processor like Applewriter does. It also comes with an enhanced DOS and scrolling capability. I have not really taxed its features other than the editor and the file transfer. The company has been very helpful, and they do maintain an online bboard, which offers some downloadable programs, e.g. one to do XMODEM. TERMEXEC does not do smartterminal emulation, and there are (apparantly) only tentative plans to work on it. One final feature, it will do filetype conversion,from any type to any other type (Applesoft, binary, text, Integer) so you can use it to transfer of any file (say an Applesoft file) by transforming it to text, then sending it; this makes it a good programming tool to, since an Applesoft file can be transformed into a text file and then edited and worked on etc, then "exec-ed" bakt to Applesoft to be re-run.