JHSangster@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (03/25/90)
OmniCom (in response to someone's question, I missed the name, sorry) supports xmodem and kermit as well as ASCII transfers. I have found the kermit to work well with unix systems as well as with ProComm on a PC. I use it at 9600 baud for file transfers to my PC 386. ASCII capture can be directed to a printer or a file. It works very reliably as long as the host supports X-OFF flow control. It's a little slow because only a 256 byte buffer is provided. The program has to spend about half the time holding the host at bay while it unloads the buffer. Come to think of it I guess that's more the fault of the 850 interface (which doesnt allow concurrent modem and disk I/O) than the buffer size. Another nice feature of OmniCom (which y'all can thank me for -- I suggested it to David Young because I had a DECMate with that feature on my desk at work and found it extremely useful) is the Print Screen function. This is very handy for taking down e-mail addresses and other bits of information. You can halt the screen with X-OFF or the CTRL-1 (or the HELP key on OMNIVIEW equipped machines) and then press SELECT and OPTION and the screen is dumped to the printer. Some folks don't like the menu setup, but for most functions it doesn't slow you down much. Otherwise the program is very useable. -John Sangster SPHINX Technologies, Inc.
njd@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (nick.j.dimasi) (03/27/90)
In article <900325050948.087234@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> JHSangster@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes: >OmniCom (in response to someone's question, I missed the name, sorry) > ..... >bits of information. You can halt the screen with X-OFF or the CTRL-1 >(or the HELP key on OMNIVIEW equipped machines) and then press SELECT >and OPTION and the screen is dumped to the printer. One little problem I ran into with using X-OFF (^S) at 2400bps is, that OmniCom can't keep up with incoming chars. at that speed, so it sends its own ^S/^Q to keep from overflowing its buffer. When I hit ^S, by the time the host machine (usually a BBS in my case) responds, OmniCom's ^S and ^Q are sent and my "pause" is undone. (At least this is what I believe is happening.) This was no problem once I tried using HELP (on my XE w/OMNIVIEW); OmniCom "sees" that I have paused screen output and handles flow control with the host. This is the only terminal program I use on my 8-bit, and I have no reason to switch! Nick DiMasi Uniq Digital Technologies, Inc. nick@udt386.chi.il.us [I'm not there much] ...att!odutsa!njd [I'm on here a lot] | Delphi: TURBONICK | DON'T USE R/r (reply command) unless | under contract to AT&T Network Systems you change the address! | (Network Software Ctr., Lisle, IL)