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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Subject: Re: Looking For Comm S/W for Unix
Organization: Unix in NYC
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 03:14:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Jun22.031438.7732@jpradley.jpr.com>
References: <1992Jun19.050703.19106@jpradley.jpr.com> <cproto.709094939@marsh> <1992Jun21.144544.25446@mccc.edu>
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In article <1992Jun21.144544.25446@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <cproto.709094939@marsh> cproto@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) writes:
>=jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>=>Maybe XC would work for you. It can use external rz/sz programs, and has
>=>xmodem built-in.
>=
>=>I submitted version 4.0 to comp.sources.unix last weekend, but I have had
>=>no sign from the moderator. If you're desperate, write back, so I can be
>=>sure of your mailpath, and I'll mail back five shar files of source code.
>=
>=I just discovered a Procomm lookalike called pcomm. I found the latest
>=version at ftp.uni-kl.de (131.246.9.95) in /pub1/unix/communication.
>=The name of the file is pcomm-1.2.10.tar.Z. It compiles and runs without
>=too much problems on my 386bsd.
>
>If memory serves, Pcomm was the base for a program that eventually
>became XC.

Sorry, Pete, memory fault :-)
Emmet Gray released version 1.0 of Pcomm in May 1988.
Eric Coe launched xcomm, from which xc is derived, circa 1985.
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Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160,1341