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From: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Zmodem
Message-ID: <25200@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 22 Mar 88 05:04:17 GMT
References: <8803150217.AA15365@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <8803150217.AA15365@jade.berkeley.edu> SLMYQ@USU.BITNET writes:
>               ...
>Now here's the problem.  All the Usenet-ites *still* haven't figured out
>a way to implement external protocols.

I've pretty much decided what I'm gonna do with VT100.  The user will be
able to specify, in the vt100.init file, something like:

      EXT   FOO   FOO @LOCAL @REMOTE FLAGS-AND-PARAMETERS

@LOCAL will be replaced with the local filename, @REMOTE will be replaced
by the remote filename (all gotten via requester if they are present in
the command...if not present, no requester will be brought up).  VT100
will quiesce its use of the serial port (by, at the user's option, closing
it or opening it SHARED in the first place and simply killing its read
request) the invoking FOO.  The first FOO is what's shown in the menu, the
remainder of the line is the command, with substitutions as stated above.
Note that @LOCAL and @REMOTE can be anywhere in the command and may appear
multiple times.

Howzat sound?
-- 
Tony Sumrall acs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!acs

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