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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Transfer protocols
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Date: 27 Oct 88 07:22:02 GMT
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From: thelake!steve@stag.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)

  emh@omni.UUCP (Eric Hopper) writes...
> 
> 	Does anybody know of a modem program that has the capability of
> running an outside program to do the transfer? I don't think there is such
> a thing, but it would be a good idea. All you would have to do would be to
> set up the transfer program to accept the filename on the command line, and
> the modem program would have to pexec() it.
> 

Vanterm works that way, at least in the version I tried nine or ten months
ago. It execs Tom Zerucha's wxytr.ttp command-driven file-transfer utility.

I don't see why it would be a good idea, though. As a kludge, I used the
technique in my own comm program before I figured out how to get Dale
Schumacher's xmodem routines through Mark Johnson's C compiler. It was a
pain in the neck to have to load the xfer routines from disk every time I
sent or received a file. When I got Dale's code to compile, I gladly
abandoned wxytr (which has the advantage of windowing xmodem) in favor of
instant response from the built-in routines.



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