Date   : Wed, 27 May 1992 01:53:41 MET DST
From   : Gerben 'P' Vos <gpvos@...>
Subject: Re: Comms program

On Wednesday May 27, 1992 Dave Sainty <terros@...> wrote:

>I'm having some trouble distributing my comms program, but I hope to make it
>avaliable shareware soon somehow...

I'd like to see it! As is always the case: when the time is right, several
people invent the wheel at the same time. As soon as my program worked
reasonably, i found three other comms programs with Ymodem! But two of them
didn't run on my machine...

>Gerben 'P' Vos <gpvos@...> writes:

>> My comms program, TSTerm 0.43 (with Ymodem) will be available on
>> rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de soon.

>This is interesting, is it for the 8 bits? I had some thoughts of doing Zmodem,
>but decided ymodem is really everything you need...

Well, Zmodem works better in some instances (like when some strange
terminal server like the one here in Amsterdam tries to "intelligently"
buffer your file...).

It works on my Electron and on at least one BBC-B. Later versions (not released
yet) read the VDU workspace (page &300) directly to make ANSI emulation
simpler, so these are guaranteed not to work across a Tube.

** Question for all: is the allocation inside page &300 the same in all Acorn
** eight-bit machines?

Oh yes, last time i forgot to mention my main interests. They are programming
and datacommunication (if you hadn't already guessed).

Greetings,
                                       <>< Gerben.