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From: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hayes transfer protocol
Message-ID: <754@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 11:45:08 EST
Article-I.D.: bucsb.754
Posted: Sat Feb 21 11:45:08 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Feb-87 01:53:18 EST
References: <56@excalibur.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Jim "Jack" Frost)
Organization: ODO (Organization for the Disorganization of Organization)
Lines: 33
Keywords: file transfer (Hayes vs. xmodem desired)
Xref: watmath comp.dcom.modems:277 comp.sys.ibm.pc:1821

In article <56@excalibur.UUCP> 159628317@excalibur.UUCP (Esmonde) writes:
>
>Hello.  I'm working on a VAX 11/785 and I have several files
>which I would like to transfer from it to my PC.  The 
>xmodem program which we have here is flaky (it doesn't
>like the DECnet server for some reason and they removed the
>last direct call-in line a few months ago).
>
>What I need to know is, what is Hayes' protocol?  I've looked
>in my Hayes Smartcom manual, but there is no information
>there.
>
>Is it a Hayes secret?  If not, does somebody know what the
>protocol is, so that I can write a transfer program?
>
In my opinion, you would be better off throwing smartcom out the window
and using any other package.  While smartcom works, it's pretty painful
to use (compared to others, like procomm).

If your xmodem is broken, why not write your own (or ask someone on the
net for one).  I have documentation on the xmodem protocol if you want to
write one, and the last time I asked for someone to mail me an xmodem
program, I got about nine different ones.  The hayes protocol is probably
better than xmodem, but with no documentation on how it works, you
cannot write your own server.  BTW, I couldn't find any documentation
on the hayes protocol, either.

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