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Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 17:40:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  6 17:40:45 1984
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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I am thinking of buying "TERMEXEC" communications program
by EXEC Software.  Does anyone have anything good or bad 
to say about it or any other communications program for 
the Apple II+(Data Capture, ASCII Exp. Pro, Etc). 

                           Thanks
                           Steve Lindeman
                           Tektronix
                           Beaverton, Or.

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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:36:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 00:36:02 1984
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Nf-From: inmet!muller    Aug 14 09:56:00 1984

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I have been using TERMEXEC for 6 or 7 months, and have generally been happy
with it.  It has unattended file transfer (receiving long files requires
the host to honor XON/XOFF, of course), a system for creating macros, and
an editor for editing any text file.  The editor is not the fastest in the
world, but is is quite useful, especially since it handles 's and ends-
of-lines the way a typewriter does, rather than the way a word-processor
like Applewriter does.  It also comes with an enhanced DOS and scrolling
capability.  I have not really taxed its features other than the editor
and the file transfer.  The company has been very helpful, and they do
maintain an online bboard, which offers some downloadable programs, e.g.
one to do XMODEM.  TERMEXEC does not do smartterminal emulation, and there
are (apparantly) only tentative plans to work on it.  One final feature, it
will do filetype conversion,from any type to any other type (Applesoft, 
binary, text, Integer) so you can use it to transfer of any file (say an
Applesoft file) by transforming it to text, then sending it; this makes it
a good programming tool to, since an Applesoft file can be transformed into
a text file and then edited and worked on etc, then "exec-ed" bakt to 
Applesoft to be re-run.