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From: metahawk@itsgw.rpi.edu (Wayne G Rigby)
Subject: Re: HandShake sucks??
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Date: 8 Apr 91 20:16:43 GMT
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In article <14232@darkstar.ucsc.edu> theacct@bill.ucsc.edu (El hombre de pelo estranja) writes:
>
>I can understand why he wouldn't like Handshake. Myself, I have no use for
> a program such as Handshake, and my personal favorite Term programs currently
>are Ncomm 1.9 and Vlt 5.045.  Handshake does have some annoying features/bugs
>but I just kind of discded it because I ddidn't feel right complaining
>to the author without having registered it, and I didn't want to register a
>program that annoyed me.  Anyway, vlt and ncomm are very nice for my needs, 
>although it would be REAL neat if one of them could implement a unix-windows
>type protocol.  
>
>On a side note: Does anyone know if it's at all possible to emulate X-Windows
>on an Amiga, I'd be very interested in running X on the machine I'm using 
>through the modem. Thanks.
>
>-jas
>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Daniel Jalkut -- Amiga guy         | "And didn't I read that these devices
>snozer@toast.santa-cruz.ca.us  /// |  go two way and everything I do or say
>408-429-8628 -- Day           ///  |  is goin' on a tape somewhere right now
>408-423-6926 -- Night       \XX/   |  planted in my cavities?"  -- LARD
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've used Handshake, jrcomm, and A-Talk III and have decided that 
jrcomm is the one I like best, but unfortunately, it doesn't support
kermit transfer protocals.  The campus' mainframes XMODEM doesn't work at
all and no one seems to know why, so I really can't use jrcomm.
What I really want is something like VersaTerm Pro for the Macs, anyone seen
something like this for the Amiga?

I can't remember the company, but you can buy X-windows for the Amiga.
The add I saw advertised with nice color X displays on an Amiga (although
they said color X was not yet available).  It's sold by itself and
in packages that contains the Boing optical mouse and/or an ethernet card.

                   Note the followup.

                                     metahawk@rpi.edu

