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From: avr@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (adam.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: modem programs for Unix
Summary: RTFM
Keywords: terminal modem sun sunos bsd telebit cds xmodem ymodem zmodem
Message-ID: <1573@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 16:14:39 GMT
References: <1053@faatcrl.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1053@faatcrl.UUCP>, jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell) writes:
>   Tip and cu just
> don't cut it, since they don't have any file transfer protocols, etc.

Really? Try the following:
1. Obtain, compile, and install the public domain umodem program.
	Most serious UNIX installations have it already. To see
	if this step can be omitted, try 'whence umodem' in ksh.
2. Call the remote machine with tip and get in.
3. Start up xmodem/ymodem/zmodem in appropriate mode on the remote.
4. Use the ~C escape to start up umodem on the local machine:
	~C umodem -<options> <file>
You can substitute any other file transfer protocol for 'modem'
in the above if you have, or can write, a small protocol-handling
program analogous to 'umodem'.

Incidentally, the ~C escape of tip is documented on the first
page of tip(1C).
				Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com