Andy, at 01:05 on Oct 05 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

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RB>>> But Terminate 4.0 WILL screw up your Courier or Sportster 
. . .[chomp]. . .
RB>>> setting up the Courier in Terminate 4 should be S H O T.

DD>> Is it called Terminate because that's what it does to your 
DD>> modem?

AR> Not at all.  AFAIK Bo Bendtsen, the author, called it 
AR> TERMINATE because he wanted it to be "The Final Terminal" 
AR> prgm anyone would ever need.  Thus they would TERMINATE any 
AR> other terminal prgm.

good grief...

AR> I see you are not using it.  I suppose you have never even 
AR> tried it. But I see you didn't hesitate to try to cut it 
AR> down.

You are indeed correct - I do NOT use Terminate.  I use an offline message
reader straight into the BBS messagebase.  I have no such need of terminal
packages (especially ones with an ego problem). 

I haven't tried blowing my brains out with a shotgun, but, as a casual
observer, I can see that it isn't for me.  Ditto with Terminate.

AR> I challenge you to find another terminal prgm as good with 
AR> as few bugs.

AR> What really amazes me is that TERMINATE v.4 has been out 
AR> since April and I have never heard about these problems.  
AR> With about 50,000 TERMINATE users that is very surprising.  
AR> That kind of makes me wonder if some of you guys don't know 
AR> what you are talking about and are blaming the wrong thing.

How many of the 50,000 use Sportsters?

AR> For sure I think you are getting Off-Topic, but I'll let the
AR> moderator of this echo take care of that.

AR> I'm here to try to help users get their USR modems working 
AR> with TERMINATE.  You usually don't see much of me in this 
AR> echo because most people don't have many problems with that 
AR> combination.  IMO they are the best modem and the best 
AR> terminal prgm.

as you wish... :-)

David
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