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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Auto-receiving with White Knight 11
Message-ID: <1108@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 23 Nov 89 00:54:19 GMT
References: <5716@wpi.wpi.edu>
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In article <5716@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg) writes:
>There have been a few postings regarding the lack of an auto-recieve option
>in White Knight. As Norm already pointed out, there IS auto-receive for a
>direct WK to WK connection, but how many times in our life will we do that??
>  1> Use the PUTPARAM 658,1 (for unix) or PUTPARAM 658,0 (for opus), and
>     you'll be all set for auto send.
>  2> Set up an endless loop to watch for the string "00000000000" or
>     whatever the standard send for a recieve zmodem file and then branch
>     to RECZ and you'll be all set for auto receive.  
>That is what I have done... it works well. BUT, if we let Scott know that
>we would like to see Auto Recieve/Send for White Knight AND OPUS AND UNIX,
>I'm sure it will be included in the next version.
>(For instance, there would be a selection box for Auto-Recieve. It would
>have three options 1>White Knight  2>Opus systems  3>Unix systems.) 

While I am not sure what the specific problem is on some Unix systems,
perhaps there is an old version of zmodem installed at some sites, I
don't know. However White Knight will Automatically begin any zmodem
file transfer without human intervention if you have Auto_receive checked
in the File transfer options. The PUTPARAM allows you to select what WK
will look for when the transfer is beginning. When I type sz filename (CR)
on my unix system, it sends the following

rz
**B000000000000

In which WK instantly opens the file transfer dialog and begins downloading
the file. I understand there are a variety of versions of Chuck's zmodem
out there, we have 2.10 here, and I read a previous msg that someone had
2.12 installed at their site. While I would assume that they should all
work the same, perhaps this is not the case. So perhaps the problem is
you are not waiting long enough for the tranfer to actually begin, again
I don't know, however I can receive zmodem files once intiated without
issuing a Cmd-RZ.


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