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From: lriggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil (L. Maurice Riggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Need Mac COMMUNICATIONS s/ware for unattended file transfers: WHICH ONE?
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Date: 29 Dec 90 14:02:01 GMT
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In article <1990Dec29.080136.6707@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> ia4@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) writes:
>I am urgently looking to buy a Mac communications package that allows file
>transfers unattended....i.e. I should be able to transfer batches of archived
>or binhexed files or segments made in Stuffit Deluxe to a remote site even when
>there is no one there to press OK or give fienames to save incoming files to HD

Both White Knight and Microphone II will do this.  They are both terminal
emulation applications with a sort of "temporary use only" BBS capability.

White Knight's version is called Host Mode and expects MS-DOS like commands.
Not very sophisticated, but it works.  About $85 mail-order.

Microphone II has a "mini-BBS" capability.  Although it isn't a full-up bbs,
it's much more sophisticated than White Knight.  About $215 mail-order.

Or, you could go with a full-up BBS system.  Second Sight from Scott Watson
is about $100 if I recall correctly.  Also there is Hermes, FBBS, and WWIV
which are shareware applications, as well as HyperBBS, a HyperCard stack.
I'm not sure of the shareware fees on these, but I'm thinking < $100.00.

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