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Subject: Clarification of 'Transfer protocols'
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Date: 28 Oct 88 19:51:09 GMT
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From: omni!emh@stag.UUCP (Eric Hopper)

In my previous message I wrote:

> 	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.

	No, I don't mean being able to execute outside programs with a
special command, I mean being able to have a library of files with .mod
endings (or something similar) that the modem program will recognize. The
program will then list the first eight letters of such program names in the
transfer menu. You can select which program to run just by selecting a
transfer protocol. The program would pass the name of the file to transfer,
and whether the transfer was an upload or download on the command line.

	The key is that it would all be transparent. To you it would seem
like the transfer protocol was built in (except for the disk access). The
program should have protocols like Xmodem, Ymodem, and ascii built in, but
you could add any transfer protocol as a separate program.

	The .mod files would not be in a special format, they would just be
.ttp files with .mod endings insted.

Eric Hopper (Omnifarious) Don't try to send to me @omni, as it is
completely unkown to any system except stag.
omni!emh@stag.UUCP  or  {... rosevax, ems, umn-cs}!pwcs!stag!omni!emh
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