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Chris;
Did you have an experience such as I did? I ran HDOS for quite some time
and then bought CPM (after all EVERYONE was using CPM). Was writing some
code and got a BDOS error on B. It was all gone! Everything! I was so
shocked. I could not believe it. I had become used to HDOS's way of
handling things (like the Amiga does now). That was on the old H-8, I
reset the machine, booted HDOS, and never ran CPM again (almost, curiosity
got me every few months or so, but never tried to do anything serious again
under CPM).
VLT and BackTalk are available in the Telecom library here on CIS (as are
several other programs). VLT is the product of SLAC (Willy Langfield –
Stanford Linear ACcellerator group). It is amoung the most stable terminal
programs on the Amiga. It is currently the one that I used the most but
you do need to be at least somewhat comfortable with ARexx programming to
make it powerful (BTW, I think it is Willy that wrote VLT, I could be wrong
there).
BackTalk is written by Steve Ahlstrom and Don Curtis, both here on CIS.
Steve teamed up with Jim Nangano to write Whap! and is the author of View!
Both are SYSOPs on CIS (and Steve is "Daddy Sysop"). BackTalk is also have
a very good ARexx interface. Unlike VLT, the phone book is built in (with
VLT there is an ARexx phone book on the networks). Even this latest
version (1.51) seem to have some trouble with ZModem (at least on my
system). It will transfer using Zmodem but there are errors and the
transfer rate runs about 10 to 20% lower than with VLT. They are both
using the same XPRZmodem library, so I don't know whats going on.
-bill – via Whap!