[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Windows communications programs.

riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) (12/24/89)

I am thinking of starting to use Windows (386), but since I use communications
programs extensively (to communicate with Unix and VMS machines), I would like
to know if there are any such programs which work well with Windows386. The ones
that I have heard of are Crosstalk, Winqvt, TwinTalk and UniComm.  Does anyone
know if there will soon be a Windows version of ProComm?
	I have tried Winqvt, but found the screen font almost unreadable (in
VGA) and the Kermit download painfully slow. I downloaded a trial version of
TwinTalk but the install program choked (annoying after paying all the long 
distance charges....).


	Carl Riehm     	riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
			riehm@sscvax.mcmaster.ca
			riehm@mcmaster.bitnet
Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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harish@guille.ece.orst.edu (Harish Pillay) (12/26/89)

In article <2594CC42.16675@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
|I am thinking of starting to use Windows (386), but since I use communications
|programs extensively (to communicate with Unix and VMS machines), I would like
|to know if there are any such programs which work well with Windows386. The ones
|that I have heard of are Crosstalk, Winqvt, TwinTalk and UniComm.  Does anyone
|know if there will soon be a Windows version of ProComm?
|	I have tried Winqvt, but found the screen font almost unreadable (in
|VGA) and the Kermit download painfully slow. I downloaded a trial version of
|TwinTalk but the install program choked (annoying after paying all the long 
|distance charges....).

You might be interested in the version of Kermit that runs under Windows.
It is available from Columbia University (via anonymous ftp - the address
escapes me)

|	Carl Riehm     	riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
|			riehm@sscvax.mcmaster.ca
|			riehm@mcmaster.bitnet

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Harish Pillay                        harish@ece.orst.edu
Oregon State University