Re: Proterm woes

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kelly.petriew@sask1.com (Plywoodchicken) wrote:

>Hi,
>I've downloaded the demo of Proterm 3.1 A2 and installed it on my
>IIGS.  I believe I've got everything set up correctly with a null
>modem on my PC COM2 to IIGS modem port.  Running telemate on PC side,
>It has no problem going into terminal mode (type on both sides echoes
>on other term), but whenever I send a file to the IIGS, it SEEMS to
>download at the correct speed etc, but does not write to my HDD.  Any
>ideas why?  Is that how the demo is crippled? Uploads to PC work
>fine..

Yes.  The transfer completes but can't be saved to disk.  This
feature is unlocked in the retail version.  That's how to get you
to buy the real thing.  ;-)

I wonder if the code to save to disk is really missing or is it just
locked out.  On some demos, you can "activate" them by editing
the code.

>I've applied the IIGS modem port patch to proterm and even slowed down
>the transfer speed (read somewhere that anything above 38400 might be
>too fast but I doubt it).  All the protocols seem to work (kermit thru
>Zmodem), it just frustrates me to find that it didn't actually
>transfer.

On a standard speed IIGS, 56k transfers should work fine, as
I suspect that it did in your case.  The program was just crippled
in this way because it is a demo version.