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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: "tip" with [xyz]modem wanted
Message-ID: <1990Apr12.203423.6848@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 12 Apr 90 20:34:23 GMT
References: <637@logicon.com> <1990Apr12.183853.3400@cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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>In article <637@logicon.com> Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes:
>>I would appreciate any pointers to an implementation of the UNIX "tip"
>>(a.k.a. "cu") command that allows file transfers using any or all of
>>XMODEM, YMODEM, or ZMODEM protocols.

The SunOS tip can be used to do this.  Basically, there is a ~C
command that executes a process with its stdin and stdout attached
to the tip line.

I used this with the widely-available Unix xmodem command, though
I had to make a slight modification to the command (it died if it
couldn't change the mode of the tty line, and that happens when you
use ~C).

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