dave@motto.UUCP (David Brown) (10/13/90)
Can anyone recommend an OS/2 communications program? Features that would
be useful to us are
- terminal mode
- upload/download
- ability to act as host
- auto-answer
- file server
- shell to OS/2 command mode
Ease of operation is important since it would not be used regularly. For
example, screen menus would be preferred to command line operation.
Thanks for your help.
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Communications Division | "Of course I'm above average! Who isn't?"goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu (10/18/90)
In article <242@motto.UUCP>, dave@motto.UUCP (David Brown) writes: > Can anyone recommend an OS/2 communications program? Features that would > be useful to us are > > - terminal mode > - upload/download > - ability to act as host > - auto-answer > - file server > - shell to OS/2 command mode > > Ease of operation is important since it would not be used regularly. For > example, screen menus would be preferred to command line operation. > David: There are a number of shareware products out there. The one I use most often is HyperAccess V by Hilgraeve (sorry, don't have product info to hand). It is a character mode app., but will run in a window, and is menu driven. It's not real friendly, if you want to do anything sophisticated, and I have never got a handle on keyboard remapping in the program. It supports a wide variety of transfer protocols: kermit, X & Y-modems, and its own proprietary (& fast) HyperProtocol. There is quite a nice PM app, called QVT-PM, that I got off a BBS (I think Magnum, in California) some time ago. It does X,Z, & ?Kermit?. I don't use it very much anymore. It's not as convenient as HyperAccess V for file transfers, because it doesn't fill in the filename itself. Then there is Logicomm, and TE, and PMComm. The first two are character mode apps, and the last is a PM app. I don't like any of them as well as I like the first two I mentioned. Adrian Goldman | Internet: Goldman@MBCL.Rutgers.Edu Molecular Biology Computing Laboratory | Bitnet: Goldman@BioVAX Waksman Insitute, | Phone: (908) 932-4864 Rutgers University, | Fax: (908) 932-5735 Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA |