What is TermWorks?

The TermWorks interface resembles FModen's, but macros and settings are controlled by menus rather than showm on a status bar. It opens to a file named Untitled that is stored on the program disk, where it saves dialog from successive sessions. Thus, you may be surprised by dialog from a long-forgotten session on your printouts, unless you change the default to Stop Recording, save input as a titled text file, or trash the Untitled file.

Even at 37,182 bytes, TermWorks has a few features the larger FModem lacks. The most important is an auto-log-on facility, which can respond to input signals. It can’t handle long dialogs, but it works with services such as GEnie and Dialcom. Other helpful touches include an indicator of space left on the program disk (but not on other disks) and a session timer. One strength TermWorks shares with FModem is the informative display of file transfer progress.

The program has some annoying quirks. Although TermWorks' ten macros can be invoked by Command-key combinations, they do not have mnemonic names. More seriously, TermWorks bombs if it tries to download an Xmodem file to a disk without enough room for it.

Macworld. (April 1987). Shareware Communications for the Mac. (pg. 174).

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Architecture

Motorola 68K

Compatibility notes

• 128K Switch partition or RAM disk in 512K

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac