Re: WANTED: File transfer in background?

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From: tomkat
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00

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On 9 Feb 1996 13:31:33 +0200, rob@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Robert
Dempster) wrote:

>John Savage (koala@sydney.dialix.com.au) wrote:
>: Dana Freer <dana@stoney.demon.co.uk> writes:
>: >Can anyone recommend a DOS TSR which will perform z-modem file
>: >transfers silently in background?
>
>: No, I don't know whether such a thing exists. But I am posting
>: your question more widely to canvass a larger readership, as it
>: is something that others using shell a/c, including myself, might
>: be interested in hearing about.
>
>A program called 'backdown' does what you want using the
>x-modem protocol.  It was described in PC Mag, May 1992.
>
>Rob
>Rob Dempster
>Dept of CS & IS
>University of Natal - Pietermaritzburg
>
Use Windows95 and Procomm Plus ---- works for me.

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From: tomkat@enterway.net (tomkat)
Subject: Re: WANTED: File transfer in background?
Date: 1996/02/12
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