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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Background file transfer
Message-ID: <313@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 1 Feb 89 21:18:54 GMT
References: <4110c5d3.102bd@willow.engin.umich.edu> <7380002@hpwrce.HP.COM>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <7380002@hpwrce.HP.COM> ted@hpwrce.HP.COM ( Ted Johnson) writes:
>>Does anybody out there know any program that enables background file transfer?
>There's a DA called Backgrounder (at SUMEX, I believe) that does this.

Not quite.  There is a (shareware?) DA called "BackDown gamma" that I
first saw quite a while ago.  I have never tried it.  I use VersaTerm
under MultiFinder (when I am plugged into a machine with enough
memory).

(Backgrounder is a system thingie that will start up PrintMonitor when
you are spooling to a LaserWriter under MultiFinder.  

Question: Does anybody know whether Backgrounder can watch for other
conditions and launch other applications?  Will it someday become a
chron-like beastie?)

Kent Borg
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