eval@dadlab.UUCP (Evaluation) (08/07/84)
I am thinking of buying "TERMEXEC" communications program
by EXEC Software. Does anyone have anything good or bad
to say about it or any other communications program for
the Apple II+(Data Capture, ASCII Exp. Pro, Etc).
Thanks
Steve Lindeman
Tektronix
Beaverton, Or.richard@apple.UUCP (Richard Johnson) (08/09/84)
[manges-moi]
I have not heard much about other communications programs for the ][+,
but having used ASCII Express Pro for awhile I can say with relative
safety that you probably won't find one that is more versatile: file
transfers (both "standard" and Christensen), keyboard macros which can
be hacked into some form of auto-logon, good interfacing woth most
80-column boards and serial cards, etc. It gets my vote.
Richard Johnson {dual,mtxinu,nsc,voder}!apple!richard
"When the going gets weird, the weird turns pro."muller@inmet.UUCP (08/23/84)
*** 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 <CR>'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.