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Article #30437Re: Looking for Background Communications
From: Mark_Peter_Cookson
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 21:05
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1988 21:05
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Red Ryder (10.3) will backgound for downloads, and so I guess it will for the rest as it is hard to do one without doing the other. You could easily write a script for password protection (I think the command would be "PROMPT psswrd") that would make it wait for the string psswrd to come in over the modem and until it did Red would just sit there and look stupid. After that (if you were in host mode) it would wait for you to give it a command such as SENDX HD name:Folder name:file name and it would start an XMODEM transfer of that file. And the command RECX (plus pathname, or at least file name) will start it ready to receive your file you are about to send it. This could also be used as a sorta clumbsy way of sending messasge back and forth (you would have to know the "address" of someone and then just download their mail, and to send them a message you would simply upload a message to them by a name they knew so they could download it). I hope that helps you out. Mark Cookson
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