Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!poole
From: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Transfer protocols
Message-ID: <510@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 28 Oct 88 19:11:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: forty2.510
References: <630@stag.UUCP>
Reply-To: poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <630@stag.UUCP> to_stdnet@stag.UUCP 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.

UniTerm can do this without problem, you can even set up a macro to display
a fileselector to get the filename (if it's a .TTP program, UniTerm will
prompt for a command line). I actually hacked up a version of zmodem to do
this sometime ago.



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