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From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
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Subject: Need Reccomendations on automated Downloading
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Date: 13 Apr 88 20:55:28 GMT
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Subject: Need Reccomendations for automated download system
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I am doing some consulting for a local company that will be distributing
Mac II's to there clients to allows them to do a certain amount of work
at their sites.

Each day the clients will dial in to my customer's macII and upload a stuffed
file containing the day's work.  I am looking for reccomendations on ways
to automate this process.  

I have used RR a while back but never done much scripting  (I now use Versaterm
for my own work, but its scripting is severely insufficient for this purpose),
do you think that a combination of RR and RR-Host would be a good choice?

How about Microphone?  What about this new package from supermac (I have
forgotten the name of the product)?

Also, we are considering the option of not doing it on a timed, automated
basis.  In this case, is it worth considering one of the async-appletalk
techniques (ie shiva netmodem), or should I stick with traditional telecomm
programs.

Note that users will be extremely unknowladgeable, and that cost is not 
a major issue (they're already getting large-color-screen/large-disk macII's).

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Josh Hodas  (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu)

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