NEXTSTEP users have two new options for connecting to the outside world with the announcement of a pair of new telecommunications applications created exclusively for the NEXTSTEP environment.
TeleComm from Zion Software & Consulting provides a graphical front-end to terminal emulation, modem communications and file-transfer protocols. It allows file transfers using X-, Y-, and ZMODEM protocols, as well as VT100- and IBM PC-terminal emulation. The app also includes APIs for custom data handling.
TipTop Telecommunication from TipTop Software provides VT102, VT220, and ANSI terminal emulation, and allows multiple modem connections and shell sessions. Like TeleComm, the app supports X-, Y-, and ZMODEM transfers, and has an API that can integrate external transfer protocols into TipTop.
In related news, Software Ventures announced that MicroPhone, once the lone telecommunications app under NEXTSTEP, has entered beta testing for a port to Intel. The company is also planning to follow NEXTSTEP onto SPARC and HP PA-RISC. TeleComm costs $92 and is available from Alembic Systems International at 303/799-6223; info@alembic.com.
TipTop can be purchased for $185, and the company can be reached at 301/656-3837; tiptop% luka@umiacs.umd.edu.
MicroPhone sells for $99, and can be upgraded to the Intel version for $49 when that version is released. Software Ventures: 510/ 644-3232.