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From: lauger@ssdvx2.mdcbbs.com
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Subject: Re: Anyone know about the new PacerLink
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.080440.1@ssdvx2.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 08:04:40 GMT
References: <1991Jun18.162400.12566@cs.utk.edu>
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In article <1991Jun18.162400.12566@cs.utk.edu>, saluzzo@hydra1a.cs.utk.edu (Brian Saluzzo) writes:
> Does anyone out there know anything else about the new
> version of PacerLink that someone from Pacer Software
> said was being released.  Supposedly, it was going to`
> list for around $250 (and hopefully retail for a heck
> of a lot cheaper!) and be available everywhere, not
> just direct.  It is supposed to be the easiest and
> fastest tool around.  
> 
> As a side note, I am using Pacerlink 5.0 to connect
> into the UNIX system here and I am getting nowhere
> with file transfers.  I've tried all of the available
> transfer, send. and receive options on pacerlink and
> every possible setting for unix and kermit under unix
> that I can think of.  I, too, like ZTerm, but also
> love the softkey feature of PacerLink.  Unfortunately,
> if I can't download files to and from my Macintosh, Pacer
> Link isn't a whole lot of good then.  Interesting, though,
> is the fact that I can download files FROM my mac to a
> VMS machine but not from the VMS machine to my mac and
> neither way under UNIX.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreiciated.
> 
> Brian

Pacerlink requires software running on the host to do file transfers.  On
our Vax, there is a process called PCLink that PacerLink connects to.
If you don't have PCLink running on your host, I think all you can do is
spool using the send text file feature. 
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