greenber@phri.UUCP (Ross Greenberg) (10/31/85)
After a long development period, TransNet is finally just about done. What is it? Good question! TransNet allows you to do XMODEM transfers of programs as a background process while you're busy in the foreground with Lotus, or any other program. If the machine that you call is running TransNet, it will appear as a rudimentary upload/download BBS. If, in addition, your machine is running TransNet, then the two machines will go about communicating without you having to notice. It presently runs on the IBM-PC and *true* clones. Enhancements underway include mail capability (*not* Unix Mail as of now, I'm sorry to say!), and remote interactive character-by-character communications. Anyway, I'm looking for some people to give it a shot, and to get back to me with suggestions regarding enhancements as well as that one ( :-) ) bug tha I couldn't find. If you're interested, please respond to me at the below address, and make sure to include your Snail address and telco number. You can try it out for uploads and downloads on my development machine, with login username "demo" and password "demo". I'll be using the machine for development during normal working hours (8:00am - 2:00am EST), but *that doesn't matter* as TransNet will be running in the background! Thanks. Ross M. Greenberg ihnp4!allegra!phri!sysdes!greenber