Article 42178 of comp.sys.cbm: Xref: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca comp.sys.cbm:42178 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!csbruce From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce) Subject: Re: Aceterm... Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:27:06 GMT References: Nntp-Posting-Host: ccnga.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada (eh!) Kevin Kelter writes: > Hey, I just called out with Aceterm as opposed to my ususal Novaterm >call... Is it just me or is aceterm a shade faster than Nova? I've got >me a 28.8k modem, and things just seem to dump quicker to the screen. Am >I sniffin' too much glue, or is this for real? :) It's for real; ACEterm (note the correct capitalization!) is MUCH faster than Novaterm, Desterm-128, Dialogue-128... all of them. That's its strength. >Too bad it just looks >so damned bad! Nova's much easier on the eyes... If you could speak to the author of the program, what would you tell him to do to make it look better? > Now if only I could figure out file transfers, then I could time these >damned things... Though the drives would be slowing me down anyway... >[sigh] What I wouldn't give for fast disk I/O... ACEterm doesn't have a standard file upload/download protocol, so you can only test it if you connect to a Unix host and can use a C compiler. Keep on Hackin'! -Craig Bruce csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca "If the World-Wide Web is a highway, then Netscape is the toll booth."