Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas
From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations - Feature wishlist
Message-ID: <10018@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 04:42:57 GMT
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Reply-To: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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>>    o I would like to see a standard Control Device for setting the port
>>      used for communication (read Modem) with all it's relative parameters,
>>      such as speed, parity, etc.  
>
> It can be done...
>
>Byron Han, Communications Scapegoat   At Apple, we change the world everyday.

If anyone would know...  (See the credits on the beta copies of the 
Communication Toolbox to see what I mean--Byron Han's name is all over them.)  
The CommToolbox provides many useful functions.  I can't wait to see the
final version.

Imagine getting this new modem, terminal emulator, or file transfer utility.
Just drop a file into a special folder, and any application written to use
the CommToolbox can use it.  This sure beat the terminal emulator shuffle
(this one does Kermit, this one does Xmodem but its VT100 emulation sucks,
etc.)  I just hope that it catches on with the commercial market.  It makes
terminal emulation applications obsolete, but opens up a new market for
tools (it would be nice if people would make these and pass them around,
kind of like HyperCard stacks).

One complaint about the CommToolbox:  It makes my dieting hard.  All of this
talk about cookies.  It makes me remember just how bad that healthy cereal
really is :-)

-Michael

p.s.  Well, maybe it won't make terminal emulation applications obsolete.
      Instead, they will be transformed into "fully-featured, extendable
      communcations environments."

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Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
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