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From: greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: secrets of FLASH?
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Date: 22 Mar 88 22:02:51 GMT
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Summary: Secrets?  What secrets?

In article <3171@hcr.UUCP> miken@hcr.UUCP (Mike Nemeth) writes:
>i've got FLASH and just recently got my hands on the source for umodem,
>which although for 4.2|ver7|sys3 seems to compile without complaints on
>sysV, so now i can upload/download via xmodem right?
>wrong. both sides just sit there waiting until one of them times out.
>is there some secret code that must be entered from the keyboard, some
>magic word to be intoned? some small animal to be sacrificed? if not,

No.  The receiving end initiates the command by sending a control
character, which one evades my memory and I don't have the spec
on-line.  Just make sure one end knows it is sending (the umodem flag
is "-sb" for "send binary" or "-st" for "send text, nyet?) and the
other is set up to receive.  If both ends think they're receivers,
neither will initiate the transfer and will eventually time out.

I use FLASH! version 1. something-or-other with umodem; it works fine.

>is there a real copy of xmodem for unix that'll work with the xmodem
>one gets using FLASH ? if not, okay, i'm not fussy, i'll take KERMIT,
>er, that is if some entity out there could direct me to a version that'll
>run on the ST...

By the way, Antic also sells a FLASH! accessory that provides Kermit,
as well as a sort of mini-bbs.  Except it isn't REALLY a BBS, but it
is useful for, say, dialing up your Atari while at work...

	Cheers,


	-Greg {decwrl!spar!snjsn1!blfca1!greg}

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	-Greg {decwrl!spar!snjsn1!blfca1!greg}

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