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- XSEND (stored in the Kermit distribution as MSIXSE)
-
- Original author: Author: Mark S. Zinzow <Markz@UIUCVMD.BITNET>, 1988.
- Modified by Vace Kundakci & Frank da Cruz, Columbia University, 1989-91.
- See source code for detailed edit history.
-
- XSEND is a program to generate TAKE (command) files for MS-DOS Kermit and FTP
- for sending files and directories to a Kermit (or FTP) server over entire
- directory trees or disks. This version uses relative directory names without
- explicit separators, so it can be used to send directory trees to UNIX as well
- as to MS-DOS.
-
- To send a directory tree from MS-DOS, change directory to the desired
- directory. Then run XSEND redirecting the output with the DOS redirection
- symbol ">" (e.g. "XSEND > takeme"). Before proceeding, look at the command
- file and make sure it's doing what you want. Then establish a connection to
- the remote system with Kermit, CD to the directory in which you want to
- replicate the DOS files and subdirectories, start the remote Kermit program
- and put it in server mode. Then escape back and TAKE the command file on the
- PC.
-
- Note that the PC sends all the files in all the directories in the same mode,
- text or binary. MS-DOS Kermit has no way of switching file mode on a per-file
- basis. This does no harm to PC-to-PC transfers, but poses dangers for
- PC-to-UNIX transfers. When using an Xsend command file to transfer a mixture
- of text and binary files to UNIX, it is best to do the transfer in binary mode
- and then remove carriage returns from the text files later with the UNIX tr
- utility.
-
- Xsend accepts the following command-line arguments:
-
- -k[path]: generate kermit commands (default)
- -c[path]: generate copy commands
- -m[path]: generate mkdir commands
- -z[path]: generate del and rmdir commands
- -l[path]: list full names
- -g[path]: generate tftp get commands
- -p[path]: generate tftp put commands
- -h<name>: tftp to/from host
- -f<name>: select files with name
- -v: verbose (applies for -cklz)
-
- (End of XSEND.HLP)
-