Upload Madness!

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

It's been a frustrating night here at Coaster Central!

I have five term programs for my Apple, and I am presently trying to
decide which one(s) to pay the SW fee on...
o Telcom
o Snowterm
o Zlink
o Kermit-65
o ProTerm 1.1

Okay, PT1.1 is out because it isn't SW, and won't do VT-100.

Using the others, I tried to do an XMODEM upload to a local server.  Just
a plain text file, sent in binary mode to avoid that blasted UNIX
line-turn problem.  In all cases...ProTerm 1.1, Zlink, and Telcom...the
upload got about half-way through, then the UNIX host conked out. 
Finally, I decided that I had run into a problem with the host.  So I
decided to use Kermit-65.  Only trouble is that the document came from
AppleWorks, and Kermit-65 only seems to work under DOS 3.3 (it's supposed
to work under ProDOS, but I have had no luck with it that way).

So then I ran into the limitations of the DOS 3.3 FST under GS/OS System 6.0!

Doggone it, why didn't those jerks who wrote GS/OS think that we would
have any desire to take the translation the other way?  Arghs!

(Just wanted to get that off my chest...)
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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