Subj : Re: MMTerm?
To   : Ed Williams
From : William McBrine
Date : Tue Mar 06 2001 06:04 pm

-=> Ed Williams wrote to William McBrine <=-

 EW> I see that you're no longer developing MultiMail?

Huh? No, that's not true. Where did you get that idea?

The latest release is 0.38, from last month; go to:

 http://multimail.sourceforge.net/

 EW> Would you consider working on a Terminal Program to dial BBS's?

No, sorry. I have no interest in such a thing. I think it's been over a
year since I called a dialup BBS. Back when I did, I used Minicom, a very
good, free, open source clone of Telix, written for Unix.

 EW> I'm constantly amazed at how much Terminal Programs cost, especially
 EW> ones that work on Dial Up machines.  There are some shareware versions
 EW> out there, but many are very hard to configure,

I'm sorry to hear that; but then, that's pretty much the state of Windows
software generally, isn't it? And DOS software, before it was moribund.  
Come over to Linux, where everything is free and good. ;-)

 EW> and most of the free ones don't work on today's pci modems.

Those aren't "today's PCI modems"; they're "today's crap Winmodems". Rip
and replace, that's my advice. Seriously -- I don't mean to sound harsh,
but those so-called modems deserve only death. No one should use them, for
anything. They're a very bad design, inflicted on an unwitting public as a
spurious cost-saving measure.

Still, I'm surprised that the terminal programs you're trying don't work
with them. I assume that they're actually DOS programs. Native Windows
programs should work OK (to the extent that a Winmodem ever works OK).

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