Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!rna!marc From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: DA for communication Message-ID: <222@rna.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 88 18:54:34 GMT References: <4541@saturn.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson) Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology Lines: 21 In article <4541@saturn.ucsc.edu> humtech@ucschu.ucsc.edu (Mark Frost) writes: > > . . . It seems that it would be very handy to have a Desk Accessory that >one could use to communicate. Say, like just a VT52 emulator or something >like that. (I know I could use MacTerminal or some other communication >application, and MultiFinder, but I would prefer not to). . . > There is a DA called "vt52" which emulates a vt52 (surprisingly enough), and also the DA called MockTerminal which does something like MacTerminal. I believe the latter is ShareWare, and the former may be Public Domain. They may be available from the SUMEX INFO-MAC archive. I can email/post an old but useable version of MockTerminal if so desired. > . . . It would also be nice if there were a bare bones Telnet, or >MacIP type capability SmartCom II (not a DA) allows a variety of different protocols, and you can certainly use it to act as a UNIX terminal. Marc Johnson Rockefeller Univ.