knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) (02/21/91)
I want to copy some files from a friend's PC to mine via our modems. Just how is this done? I assume that one of us sets our modem to auto answer, and then the other dials the number and connects. But it seems trickier than that. Perhaps the dialee has to run some special software that allows the dialer to tell the dialee to send/receive a file. How do the buletin boards accomplish this? I don't have any trouble getting files when I call a buletin board. I just don't understand what the PC on the other end does to allow me to dial in. thanks for any help, tom
dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) (02/22/91)
I'm busy at the moment but basically you're right in you modem setup. However you also need a little bit of software that detects the connection and will then talk to you. Failing that you need access to the target PC's command line. Either way you then need to be able to run a program that will let you select a file and send it to you. There are many protocols for this and a simple one to implement would be xmodem. In this case you'd also need to be running a terminal emulator on your end capapble of using xmodem. I work on Advlink here at PWD so I can help you lot's more if you really need it...but as I say I'm kinda busy at the moment. Hopefully armed with that stuff you should be in a better position than you were. Perhaps the best method would be to have your friend run a term-em at his end and once his modem answers you should be able to configure your term-em to recv and his to send. Again you need to use file transfer features such as Xmodem. Regards, Dan