cu & sb/rb

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <50867 at apple.Apple.COM> erekose at apple.com (Erik Scheelke) writes:
>I have a quick question:
>I have a cu connection to another machine.  I want to use sb and rb (Y-Modem)
>to send a file back and forth between machines.  How can I do this?

Quick answer: you can, but it's very tricky to get cu to attach the stdin
and stdout to the modem port. A Bourne-shell script ("beta version") that
would appear to do this is in LIB 1 of CompuServe's unixForum, but I found
it needed a bit of work. It's called CU.SH.

I didn't undertake the work, because I felt it was doable but not worth my
time, since xcmalt lets me use rb, rz, rx, sz, sb, sx without trouble.
Xcmalt is in LIB 4 of the above mentioned Forum. It also enable capturing to
user-selected files, has a built-in xmodem protocol, does put and take, and
runs CompuServe' B+ protocol too. It can run interactively or under script
control.

If you don't have CompuServe access, write me back. I'll either send you
version 2.9 (issued last fall) or perhaps, RSN, the next version, which
I'm trying to release in the next few weeks.
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 Jean-Pierre Radley   NYC Public Unix   jpr at jpradley.jpr.com   CIS: 72160,1341