donchin (04/22/83)
#N:uiucdcs:24700016:000:847 uiucdcs!donchin Apr 22 01:02:00 1983 I recently received the new version of Xtalk, and I'm very impressed. It emulates five terminals, including VT-100, IBM 31001, Teleview 910/920 series, and I don't remember the others. It supports `scripts', which means it can take commands from a file. The scripts have commands which prompt the user, `wait' for a specified string of characters, or a set number of characters, or set length of time, or until a certain time, perform a specified action `when'ever an even occurs. In general, more than powerful enough for a terminal program. I provides simple upload and download facilities, supports autodialing modems, allowing you to set up the syntax for transmission of the number to the modem, and it has a wide variety of transmission variables which you can set when in the program, or set in the startup file, making them defaults.