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From: vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: how to upload a bbs from unix
Message-ID: <924@wanginst.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 09:19:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 09:19:51 1985
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> I would like to upload some of the nicer tidbits from net.sources.mac
> to a bbs that I'm a member of.  I'd like to do it without having to
> first download the stuff to my mac using macput and then sending it on
> to the bbs.  Does anybody have any ideas on how this can be done?
> 
> I tried using cu to call the bbs and then running macput using ~+ (a
> feature in HDB that runs a comand with stdin(stdout) from(to) the remote
> system) with no success (macput times out).  
> 
Unless your BBS supports MacTerminal's unique form of xmodem, macput
won't talk to it (as you noticed already!).  Instead, use umodem.  Most
BBS's do support it in its more usual varieties.

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