liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg) writes:

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>In article <1992Aug7.175800.25797@htsa.aha.nl> miquels@htsa.aha.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote:

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>> Anyway, I changed lotta things in minicom, it is also possible to press
>> Control-C now when running sz/rz. Further more, the ALT key can be
>> used now, and minicom runs in an Xterm. When its some more cleaned up,
>> I'll post it to alt.sources.

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>Since you're working on minicom, I'd like to present a little wish list. :-)

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>Support for higher transfer rates, 38400 bps the very least.

    Hate to tell you, but no modem even gets close to 38400 thruput. Closest
I've seen is 26K [14.4 thruput, MNP9 on a textfile]

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>Configurable autodownload sequences for external protocols would be great

   Autodownloads are a bane on humanity. How many times has your CIS-B transfer come up with +0 on a ^E? 

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>Some sort of a backlog would be nice.

    X works very nicely for that. [Ctrl+Middle mouse button]

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>For more ideas, I suggest you take a look at TeleMate (for MSDOG).
>It has several very nice, if not essential, features.

    _PLEASE_ Don't look at telemate WHATEVER you do. If you really feel the needto have a MS Dos like Comms program, work on a Telix Like clone with a nice 
scripting language.

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>> Mike.

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