#BackTalk sending ASCII
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Hi!
I've been thinking about downloading BackTalk to use as my terminal program
since Access! no longer works with W2.0 (heartfelt sigh), but am wondering
if it can send ASCII files. I looked at a copy my brother had, and didn't
see anything that led me to believe it has this capability.
Can someone tell me if it can send ASCII files before I d/l it?
Thanks!
Julia
Julia –
Yes, it can send ASCII. You might have to play with the character delay
and line delay setting to get it to work right depending on the destination
(some BBSs seem to have small buffers or something and I've had characters
get lost until I put in longer delay times on my end). The only problems
I've had with BackTalk are that it hangs on some PC BBSs when they're
sending ASCII characters greater than 128 (not all the time, just sometimes
– the kind of problems I _really_ like 8^( ), and after double-clicking on
a phone book entry, the dial string is sent to the screen but (apparently)
not to the modem as since it doesn't dial – if I hit Redial from the menu
it works. Other than that, I haven't had any major problems. I use it for
ZModem downloads since JR-Comm on my system has trouble since I went to
WB2.04. Hope this helps …
Harry
Check the directory with the ARexx stuff in it. There is an ARexx ASCII
send program that works much better than the XPRASCII module.
-larry