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Article #30238Re: Looking for Background Communications
From: Josh Hodas
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1988 18:04
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1988 18:04
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In article <19329@cornell.UUCP> lauri@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Georges Lauri) writes: >-------- > >I'm looking for a simple mac background communication program that >can provide a very minimal unattended file transfer capability. >Since we have a mixed machine park, i'd like the thing to be >as universal as a Un*x remote login (i.e., all straight ASCII), >with the usual simple filesystem and upload/download commands, >for binary and ascii files. Error control is no issue as we are >using MNP modems. >If you know of such a beast, please email to me, i'll post a summary. > Georges Lauri > lauri@svax.cs.cornell.edu IN response to this and another poster who asked about differences between Versaterm 3.1 and 3.2, one of the things Versaterm added in 3.2 is a very nice upload/download driver. THe remote machine can request directories, and tell the mac to send or recieve, in any given protocol. SInce Versaterm already supports backgrounding in general, this ought to do it. All commands are simple ascii control strings. Josh ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-9515 (school office)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!uwvax!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!super.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Looking for Background Communications Message-ID: <5469@super.upenn.edu> Date: 16 Jul 88 18:04:33 GMT References: <19329@cornell.UUCP> Sender: news@super.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) Distribution: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 32