Re: "Multi-Finder"-type pgms for IIgs?

[hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

>btw, how' Spectrum? I have been thinking about getting it, but I have only
>seen a "beta" copy of the software passed around very long time ago. Is the
>VT100 still in text mode? How do you feel about the software? Can it replace
>ProTerm as THE telecommunication system for GS?

Even after a shift-boot I tend to have a lot of problems with Spectrum when
it comes to file transfers, and I always seem to end up with uneven screen
displays in ANSI emulation (which the local BBS which I access uses). By 
uneven I mean individual screen lines are displaced. And I REALLY don't like
the pure text scrollback. It's pretty much useless when you're on a Unix or 
ANSI system (which are what I use all the time).

I have recently discovered, and purchased, ANSITerm from PMP. Quite simply, 
it's brilliant (IMHO). Although it's not a desktop program (perhaps its only
drawback) it works flawlessly, with full colour ANSI scrollback, special
character and colour support in VT100, the lot. Its user interface is a 
little more clumsy than ProTERM's perhaps, and it's not mouse driven, so
I'd put them about equal, feature for feature. But that's just me.  :-)

Peter Hinchliffe	hinchlif@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au

WAppleII, Inc
Western Australia

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