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From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Looking for Background Communications
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Date: 16 Jul 88 18:04:33 GMT
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In article <19329@cornell.UUCP> lauri@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Georges Lauri) writes:
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>I'm looking for a simple mac background communication program that
>can provide a very minimal unattended file transfer capability.
>Since we have a mixed machine park, i'd like the thing to be
>as universal as a Un*x remote login (i.e., all straight ASCII),
>with the usual simple filesystem and upload/download commands,
>for binary and ascii files. Error control is no issue as we are
>using MNP modems.  
>If you know of such a beast, please email to me, i'll post a summary.
>				Georges Lauri
>				lauri@svax.cs.cornell.edu

IN response to this and another poster who asked about differences between 
Versaterm 3.1 and 3.2, one of the things Versaterm added in 3.2 is a very
nice upload/download driver.  THe remote machine can request directories, and
tell the mac to send or recieve, in any given protocol.  SInce Versaterm
already supports backgrounding in general, this ought to do it.  All commands
are simple ascii control strings.

Josh


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