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From: reintom@rocky2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XMODEM or KERMIT in background
Message-ID: <342@rocky2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 10:05:20 EST
Article-I.D.: rocky2.342
Posted: Tue Feb 24 10:05:20 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 06:17:05 EST
References: <509@savax.UUCP>
Organization: Rockefeller Univ.,N.Y.C 10021
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Summary: Buy SideTalk.  It does what you want.

In article <509@savax.UUCP>, pitaro@savax.UUCP (Michael Pitaro) writes:
> A long time ago I saw a PD program mentioned which would do XMODEM or
> KERMIT transfers in the background allowing you to do other things at
> the same time (non-modem related of course).  If anyone has any
> information on this or any other similar program I'd appreciate the
> pointer.
> 
> 	Michael Pitaro

There is a package called SideTalk which is published by Lattice.
It was originally written by MagicSoft but I guess they decided
to go with a company with larger resources to publish their
program.  Smart move.  You can get SideTalk from most
programmer's shops, such as Programmer's Connection and
Programmer's Shop, etc.  You can also get it from Lattice.

I have use SideTalk and am pretty impressed.  It works as you
would want, which is better than I thought MS-DOS computers
could.  It has a programming language so you can write scripts in
the SideTalk language.  This allows you file management, login
scripts, and whatever.

SideTalk does capture, XMODEM and YMODEM in the foreground or
background.  You can switch between background and foreground any
time by hitting the hot key.  There is even a flip command in the
language!  Too bad they didn't build one into DOS but I realize
that's a little too ambitious and risky.

Disclaimer: Do you really think that after writing this article in this
style that I work for any above-mentioned companies and that I need a
disclaimer?

Tom

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