communicating with DOS boxes

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <876 at cdin-1.UUCP> fred at cdin-1.UUCP (Fred Rump) writes:

>Some of our customers wish to send data (ascii data files) from their xenix 
>boxes to a dos box somewhere.

>How can we do the same from Xenix boxes without purchasing TERM or some other 
>commercial package? This has to be cheap.

I assume you mean some error-correcting protocol - otherwise you just use
any terminal emulator that does ascii capture on the PC and "cat" on
xenix.  Or if you want the xenix box to place the call use cu and "~$cat file"
to send.

Either get one of the UUPC versions that are floating around for the DOS side
and use standard uucp/mail on xenix, or get Kermit for both sides.  If the
PC can place the call, the rz/sz programs (z/y/zmodem protocol) work with
procomm/telix, etc. and the y/zmodem transfers are faster than kermit.

I'd recommend starting with kermit (the price is right).  You might also
want to use zoo or arc to bundle and compress the data before transmission.

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us