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From: niobium@arrakis.nevada.edu (Christopher W. Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Standalone Zmodem programs?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.030835.16892@nevada.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 03:08:35 GMT
Sender: niobium@nevada.edu (Christopher W. Carlson)
Organization: University of Nevada, System Computing Services
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Hallo there!

I recently picked up the program NiftyTerm because I've been looking for a
term program that would accurately emulate a VT102 and not take up too much
memory, like VLT does.  The one bad point that I can find with NiftyTerm is
that it has no built-in support for file transfers.  Somewhere in the docs
it mentions the possibility of using a standalone x-fer program that would
take over the serial port and do its work, and then go away so that the term
program could continue its job.

Has anybody done such a thing?

If not, how feasible would building such a beast be?  I've no C compiler
(yet) but I do have ARexx, the Rxgen package from Fish disk #459 (which 
allows you to call nearly any library function from within an ARexx program)
and a whole slew of external transfer protocol libraries.  Can it be done
with this set of tools?  Can anybody offer any hints as to HOW?

Many thanks in advance...

-=* CWC
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