Path: rcfnews.cs.umass.edu!barrett From: orion@csos.orst.edu (Orion Cannon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews Subject: MINI-REVIEW: Term version 4.2 Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Date: 19 Jan 1995 15:51:50 GMT Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett Lines: 101 Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator) Distribution: world Message-ID: <3fm1qm$4np@kernighan.cs.umass.edu> Reply-To: orion@csos.orst.edu (Orion Cannon) NNTP-Posting-Host: astro Keywords: telecommunications, giftware Originator: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu PRODUCT NAME Term 4.2 BRIEF DESCRIPTION This is a handy Amiga communications program. AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION Name: Olaf Barthel Address: Brabeckstrasse 35 D-30559 Hannover Federal Republic of Germany E-mail: olsen@sourcery.han.de LIST PRICE Giftware: a gift (money or otherwise) is requested by the author. ORDERING INFO Available on the Aminet ftp sites in /pub/aminet/comm/term: term42-Roadmap.txt comm/term 27K+Introduction to the distribution term42-Main.lha comm/term 534K+Distribution for all Amigas term42-030.lha comm/term 533K+The MC68020/030/040/060 version term42-Doc.lha comm/term 181K+AmigaGuide format and library docs term42-DVI.lha comm/term 186K+Documentation in TeX-DVI format term42-PostScr.lha comm/term 227K+Documentation in PostScript format term42-Extras.lha comm/term 203K+HydraCom, ARexx scripts, sounds... term42-Libs.lha comm/term 126K+XPR and XEM libs term42-Locale.lha comm/term 211K+Locale and blank catalog table file term42-Source.lha comm/term 669K+Source code to program and UI SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE 1 MB Chip RAM. Hard drive recommended. You may be able to run it from floppies, but it wouldn't be pretty since it's 1.5 megabytes unzipped. SOFTWARE AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. MACHINE USED FOR TESTING Amiga 2000, 1 meg Chip RAM, 3 meg Fast RAM 20 megabyte hard drives Kickstart and Workbench 2.04 LIKES Well, this is one of the best communications programs I have seen for the Amiga. Its features beat all the other communications programs I have ever used. It has a nice voice feature which announces what it's doing while dialing (i.e., "Line Busy"). One of the best features is that it's free! DISLIKES AND SUGGESTIONS Not much wrong with it, except that some heavy requirements might stop some users of Amiga 500 and 1000 and other non-hard-drive systems from using this really nice program. CONCLUSIONS I would recommend this program to just about everybody, except users without hard drives. ==================== Amiga 500/2000 //Corvallis,OR \\ // \\ // \X/ Orion Cannon Amiga/PC ==================== --- Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu Moderator mail: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu Anonymous ftp site: math.uh.edu, in /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews