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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3921.0. "*****JR Comm 1.0 Is Here*****" by CSCOAC::KENDRIX_J () Wed Jul 11 1990 10:20

    
    Hello Fellow Amigos!!
     
    [Much Trumpet Fanfare Inserted Here]
    
    After many trials and tribulations, bugs squashed, and bugs created by
    squashing bugs.  After a zillion Beta and a few Gamma versions, my
    friend Jack, who made famous the phrase 'This is the last version
    before 1.0' has finally satisfied himself enough to release ****JR Comm
    1.0****.
     
    I'm not going to attempt a review of the program, rather, I leave that
    for you to decide.  JRComm 1.0 is now appearing on Tape::user2:[upload]
    for your inspection and downloading pleasure!!
     
    Enjoy!
     
    JK
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3921.1LEDS::ACCIARDILarger than life, and twice as uglyWed Jul 11 1990 10:235
    
    Ah, many thanks... I was going to download this last night from PLINK,
    but I refrained due to Mastercard Trauma.
    
    Ed.
3921.2JRC10.LZHCSCOAC::KENDRIX_JWed Jul 11 1990 10:396
    You're quite welcome.  Just realized that I forgot to tell you the
    filename...  that **might** facilitate finding it...  Anyway, it's
    'JRC10.LZH'...
     
    JK
3921.3GimmickryDICKNS::MACDONALDVAXELN - Realtime Software PubsWed Jul 11 1990 11:3815
    V1.0 is heavily fortified with various Shareware gimmickry. But for $30
    you can get it removed.
    
    For example, a registration reminder screen pops up quite frequently.
    Any attempts to modify anything in the program results in another
    message and a system crash (I believe it also automatically corrupts
    the .defs and .phones files) - probably implemented through a checksum. 
    After 30 days, yet another message pops up to remind you that the 
    evaluation period has expired! The program is pretty large but can be
    dramatically reduced in size using PowerPacker.
    
    You cannot run the JR-Edit program unless you have first run JR-Comm
    and have created a new .defs and .phones files. Be sure to save your
    .94 .phones. and .defs files somewhere else. JR-Edit allows you to
    convert them to V1 files.
3921.4FONTS.LZHDICKNS::MACDONALDVAXELN - Realtime Software PubsWed Jul 11 1990 11:391
    What are all the fonts used for?
3921.5JR-Comm V1.0READ::POMEROYWed Jul 11 1990 12:2910
    Just so you'll know,
    
    	JR-Comm does have checksum routines to protect from file zapping.
    V1.0 is well worth the $30 registration fee. My roommate is a beta
    tester for Jack, and I think he found just about every bug possible,
    and Jack fixed 'em all. The program works like a charm.
    
    					bob
3921.6DICKNS::MACDONALDVAXELN - Realtime Software PubsWed Jul 11 1990 14:521
    Gotta zap Re-dial to Redial!
3921.7Now in AUIXSTACY::PATTISONA rolling stone gets the wormMon Oct 14 1991 08:5612
Just got a copy of JR-Comm free with Amiga User International (a UK publication)
November edition

Well worth having, it now sits on my (muchly depleted to make room) Workbench
disk. Main benefits to me are VT100 emulation and ZMODEM

VT100 emulation includes full keypad (and all in the right place too)

I think it's at V1.02 now (I'm at work at the moment).


Dave
3921.8VERGA::MACDONALDHome of Digital Realtime PubsMon Oct 14 1991 13:152
    V1.02a is current. V2.00 is due out this month. It is rumored to have
    areaxx support and scripting.
3921.9V1.02a is a dogXSTACY::PATTISONadventure was never far away, etcTue Oct 29 1991 16:5017
Actually I've changed my mind about JR-Comm..

It looks good..

It feels good...

But its VERY buggy. For some reason if you ever let the
cursor get near the bottom of a screen you stand a good
chance of getting GURUed. Plus sometimes the fonts go 
haywire and you get a load of characters with the bottoms cut
off. Plus if its stored on your workbench disk it tries
to write to the disk on startup every time (who knows why)
plus it complains it cant read the defaults file (though it
can and does) plus......

Now I've discovered VLT and I'm much happier.
3921.10IAMNRA::SULLIVANLife gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste!Wed Oct 30 1991 09:2018
RE:.9

>  But its VERY buggy.

Golly, I haven't run into these problems (except perhaps the writing to disk
one, but are you sure you don't have default journaling turned on or a log
file enabled as default?).

I have had no crashes or other problems on my A3000, A2500, A500, or A1000
using KS37.175 (V2.04). I have not run V1.02 with the V1.3.3, V1.3.2 or earlier
systems, so there could be problems there.

I have tried the program "term" (V1.9 I think) and it has a very nice user
interface implementation. It, however *is* buggy. The VT100 implementation 
will not even run notes correctly. Perhaps Radigan can spiff up the JRComm
user interface a bit to use some 2.0 features and look.

	-SES