[net.micro.mac] how to upload a bbs from unix

mkg@lzwi.UUCP (M.GOSNELL) (08/09/85)

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).  

Any suggestions are welcome.
  Marsh Gosnell  lzma!mkg

vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (08/12/85)

> 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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