[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Bart Zorn]

On Saturday, January 5, 2013 5:26:05 PM UTC+1, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 1/5/2013 10:03 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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> > On 2013-01-05 10:39:23 +0000, Paul Sture said:
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> >> The best of the bunch in my experience was the DEC one which came with
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> >> Pathworks.  I don't think it was available as a stand alone product, or
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> >> if it was it was too expensive, because when we dropped Pathworks we
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> >> also had to drop that.
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> > That was PowerTerm.
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> > VTstar was (is) a very good emulator for those using Windows, though
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> > suffered from aging packaging and installation, and from a lack of ssh.
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> IIRC, The PowerTerm supplied with Pathworks 32 also did not have SSH 
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> capability.
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> If you wanted the SSH, you needed to buy an upgrade from Ericom.
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> http://www.ericom.com/ptpl.asp
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> I have not ever used the upgraded product from Ericom.
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> Regards,
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> -John
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> Personal Opinion Only

AFAIK, every Alpha system came with licenses for 3 PathWorks clients, which included the use of PowerTerm. On the last PathWorks32 CD there was PowerTerm V5.6, which included SSH. I am still using it, although it has some issue on Windows7.

I have tried to use later Ericom products, like PowerTerm for Mac, but I never got further than a beta and communicating with Ericom was next to impossible because they just do not answer emails.

I have never liked Reflection: it was (is) expensive and they named it "Reflection for Unix and Digital" which IMHO indicated that they didn't know what they were talking about.

Bart