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From: Mark_Peter_Cookson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for Background Communications
Message-ID: <7582@cup.portal.com>
Date: 22 Jul 88 21:05:59 GMT
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Red Ryder (10.3) will backgound for downloads, and so I guess it will for the
rest as it is hard to do one without doing the other.  You could easily write
a script for password protection (I think the command would be "PROMPT psswrd")
that would make it wait for the string psswrd to come in over the modem and
until it did Red would just sit there and look stupid.  After that (if you
were in host mode) it would wait for you to give it a command such as SENDX
HD name:Folder name:file name and it would start an XMODEM transfer of that
file.  And the command RECX (plus pathname, or at least file name) will start
it ready to receive your file you are about to send it.  This could also be
used as a sorta clumbsy way of sending messasge back and forth (you would have
to know the "address" of someone and then just download their mail, and to
send them a message you would simply upload a message to them by a name they
knew so they could download it).

I hope that helps you out.

Mark Cookson