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From: cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Want program to download in background
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Date: 17 Jan 90 02:41:47 GMT
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In article <13274@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> kimf@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Kim Flowers) 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.

Try RCOMM from Simtel20 in pd1:<msdos.modem>.  It's a bit flaky, but
does reasonable background download in Xmodem and Ymodem.

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