rb@ccivax.UUCP (rex ballard) (09/17/85)
A local dealer needs help. He has been trying to get some software on his shelves for the ST for about three weeks. He is getting a lot of 'Real Soon Now's but nothing for his shelves. Can anybody give me the names of some titles he can get right now? The product should be something which you can buy now, the magazine ads haven't yielded any thing but some text adventure games. If you have purchased the product, please describe your impressions of it. If you have seen demonstrations, please describe your impressions. If you have written 'public domain' stuff, would you be willing to have it sold? No "Demo's", there are enough of those included already. Most urgent needs are some sort of communications package with binary download capability.
rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) (09/18/85)
In article <255@ccivax.UUCP> rb@ccivax.UUCP (rex ballard) writes: >Most urgent needs are some sort of communications package with binary >download capability. I called Atari, and they claim that they are shipping Kermit with the C compiler/assembler/linker package. I don't know if this version can do binary downloads or just 7-bit, and don't much care, as so many mailer systems chew up 8-bit files. A version of the binhex 4.0 protocol (Macintosh 8-bit to 7-bit file coding) would be nice.... ("What's this Kermit thing?". Kermit is a communications protocol developed at Columbia University to facilitate transmission of text files between mainframes and micros. Many versions support 8-bit file transfer. It has good error-checking, although it is slow. Kermit is available for damn near everything: if you want your Cray-1 to talk to your Commodore 64, they both speak Kermit. Kermit is available through many user's groups. Columbia U. will NOT supply disks with Kermit on it to people. They do sell tapes with the entire Kermit collection (mainframe and micro), if you need to bootstrap it. okstate and cu20b have Kermit online in various versions for uucp and ftp, respectively.) -- "For it's cheer up my lads, let your heart never fear when you stay home from the free lanes, for to be a profiteer" - to the tune of Bonnie Ship the Diamond Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick