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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!isucard.card.iastate.edu!MLONG
  3. From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
  4. Subject: Re: Drag and Drop file transfer. How?
  5. Message-ID: <16858DA0B.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: CARD
  8. References:  <1992Sep4.164421.26775@colorado.edu>
  9. Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:30:15 GMT
  10. Lines: 30
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Sep4.164421.26775@colorado.edu>                                 
  13. doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight) writes:                                 
  14.                                                                                 
  15. >                                                                               
  16. >I would like to set up my os/2 machine so that someone can drag                
  17. >and drop a file and have it transferred (by modem using kermit or              
  18. >possibly xmodem) to my sparc.                                                  
  19. >                                                                               
  20. >I have been playing with an unregistered version of pmcomm but i'm             
  21. >unsure if the scripting would allow this to work. I'm reluctant                
  22. >to buy it in the dark, as it were.                                             
  23. >                                                                               
  24. >I also have been looking at pmftrm (from IBM) but it looks, to me, like the    
  25. >scripting is limited to a small number of send/response strings. It this the   
  26. >case.                                                                          
  27. >                                                                               
  28. >A perfectly good alternative would be to have an icon which, when clicked,     
  29. >transferred the entire contents of a folder.                                   
  30. >                                                                               
  31. >What suggestions do all you gurus have? Is there a nice elegant inexpensive    
  32. >way to do this.                                                                
  33. >                                                                               
  34. >Douglas                                                                        
  35. >                                                                               
  36. Not exactly what you are doing, but a REXX utility has been written to do this  
  37. for Extended Services 3270 file transfer - drag a file to an icon, and have it  
  38. upload to host.                                                                 
  39. If you are interested in the REXX code I can see if I can find it again :=>     
  40. Mike Long                                                                       
  41. Iowa State University                                                           
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