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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2113674)
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Subject: Re: Want program to download in background
Keywords: dgterm on simtel supports background transfers
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Date: 15 Jan 90 15:58:20 GMT
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In article <13274@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, kimf@tybalt.caltech.edu (Kim 
writes:
|>I vaguelly remember a program floating around somewhere that allowed
|>downloading from a mainframe to a PC in the background.  I need to
|>transfer some extremely large files from a VMS system to a PC and
|>would prefer to be able to use the PC while I'm at it.

DGTERM in PD2:<MSDOS2.MODEM> on Simtel20 supports background
download/upload with XMODEM or YMODEM-BATCH... Crashes the system
every once in a while though, if I remember correctly. Evidently the
comm program that comes with PC-TOOLS (Centralpoint) supports
background XMODEM too.

						Ron

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