[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Bart Zorn wrote 2013-01-06 09:25:
> 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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>>>
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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
>>
>> 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.

The name is "Attachmate Reflection for UNIX and OpenVMS 14.0"

Hm, it simply means that different tools (FTP, emulation and so on)
has settings to select Unix *or* VMS type of hosts.

Apart from the price and the name, is there anything else?

I've used Reflection for probably over 30 years and it has always
served me well.

Jan-Erik.