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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Thoughts on //gs Sales
Message-ID: <8807091424.aa07028@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Date: 9 Jul 88 19:09:26 GMT
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>see some piece of slime Apple calls a telecommunications program!  I too was
>one of the witless saps that was suckered into purchasing Apple Access II
>from my friendly dealer (only to find out it didn;t transfer anything but
>text files!).

At the time it was first published, Apple Access II was the cheapest,
half decent vt100 emulation around - especially since dealers around here
were inclined to "toss it in" with the sale of a color //c system + Apple
modem.

While Access II has LOTS of limitations, it WILL transfer binary files
IF they are "bunny" files (BNY, BQY, etc).  The fact that the files
download with a file byte of .TXT doesn't make any difference at all,
they'll still unpack.

At the time Access II was released, the only way to transfer other than
text files on an Apple was either an Xmodem "superset" on BOTH ends (AE
Pro's method) or commware that could specify (external to the transfer)
the file attributes (SOFTERM's method).  AE Pro and SOFTERM both cost
considerably more than Apple Access II.

Both TIC and ZLink are considerably more capable programs (for less $$
too), but anyone who still has Access II can continue to make do if they
have a copy of BLU to use along with it.

As a sidebar: for the truly impecunious, Kermit 3.83 (or greater) and
BLU provide both Kermit and XModem for any type of Apple 2 file plus
VT100 emulation at a price that's hard to beat (both are public domain).

Murph Sewall     Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET
Business School  sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu          [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax}
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