Re: ProTERM 3.1 DEMO on cco.caltech.edu

[unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret)]

In article <fmlinC6o0Gw.63w@netcom.com> fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
>Yes, 3.1 looks kinda nice.  But $30 + shipping is quite steep.  It's near

The demo said $40 actually.  It's slightly annoying that the upgrade has a
new manual.  The manual is likely a significant cost compared to the rest of
it, and if I could upgrade without the manual I would.  Through my VERY VERY
VERY brief look at the demo, things didn't look spectacularly different...
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I just perused the menu items.

Anyhow, the demo doesn't have the
ATI 9600etc/e driver that Greg made after 3.0 came out, and it didn't appear
to recognize it when I just copied it from the 3.0 folder.. (same with
my dialing list.. but there wasn't a pt.dial directory so I'm presuming that
feature is absent from the demo).  So I'll have to play around to see which 
other 9600 cts/rts drivers work.

Anyhow, does anyone know if Zmodem was improved?  This is my only semi-major
complaint about ProTERM, in that the Zmodem often gets a CRC error, then
a bunch (sometimes in the HUNDREDS in a second or two) of ZRPOS errors.. then
ends up switching down to 256 byte packets, which slows down things a lot.
(And the fact that it _doesn't_ attempt to switch back to 1K packets when it
goes to the next file in the batch is somewhat annoying, though that may be
a limitation in the Zmodem protocol. Greg's never answered about that point).

There is a comment in Brendan Hoar's PT3.GLOBAL file that was also put on
cco.caltech with the pt3.1 demo that appeared to say that Zmodem was working
better but isn't quite specific on whether it was referring to compared to
3.0 or compared to previous beta versions of 3.1.

>I'm waiting to buy the upgrade until the editor limits removed, or become

Doesn't it appear that the editor limit will never be removed?  With all
of the big enhancements so far, it looks like Greg has reasonably (IMHO) 
decided that the editor takes a back seat to the other features that are more
directly related to telecommunications (like drivers for new modems, terminal
emulations, and improving download protocols).
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