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- B A C K G R O U N D
-
- This is xc for NeXTStep 3.2, a rather dirty port of the Unix communication
- program xc to the NeXT operating system. Nevertheless it works. I have
- tested it personally on "black" (Motorola) and "white" (Intel) hardware, if
- someone succeeds to compile it under HP-PA or SPARC I would like to hear
- from you.
-
- If you have general questions or suggestions concerning xc you should
- direct them to Jean-Pierre Radley, the xc custodian. His E-Mail-address is
- jpr@jpr.com. If you have questions that are specific to NeXTStep send them
- directly to me since Jean-Pierre Radley does not currently support this
- version.
-
- My "signature" is:
-
- Wolfgang Ambrosch | ambrosch@ping.at
- Jaegerhausgasse 16 | Fax : +43 2252 47 690
- A-2500 Baden | Phone: +43 2252 46 817
- Austria | NeXT-Mail and MIME welcome
-
- If you want to obtain the most recent version of xc for other Unix-systems
- you should look on the following ftp-servers:
-
- ftp.celestial.com
- ftp.sco.com
-
-
-
- I N S T A L L A T I O N
-
- To install xc for NeXTStep simply type "make". Don't run "Configure" since
- it will destroy the NeXTStep-specific Makefile with some wrong guesses.
- After you have the binary you can follow the directions given in the README
- file.
-
- Good luck!
-
-
- Original documentation
- ======================
-
- Once upon a time (in 1985 or so), a fellow named Eric Coe wrote a Unix dialout
- telecommunications program with xmodem called XCOMM. This program was
- substantially upgraded and improved by another fellow named Larry Gensch, who
- brought XCOMM up to Version 2.2. Version 2.2 included a simple script
- language, 128-byte Xmodem and Compuserve Quick-B file-transfer protocols, and
- some other stuff. Fred Buck then changed the program name to XCMALT, which it
- maintained until June 1991, when Jean-Pierre Radley renamed it XC.
-
- XC is a massive expansion and modification of XCOMM 2.2. Many bugs in
- XCOMM 2.2 have been fixed, and many advertised features that didn't work in
- XCOMM 2.2 do work in XC. Also, XC includes a fullscreen dialing directory; a
- totally rewritten and much more powerful script language allowing, among other
- things, remote execution of shell commands and unattended protocol-controlled
- file transfer (provided that your system also has Chuck Forsberg's "rz/sz"
- Xmodem/Ymodem/Zmodem program, available as shareware from many sources), a
- flexible variable mechanism, including access to shell environment variables,
- and more; BREAK-signal capability; the capability to upload a file in ASCII
- from within a script; and miscellaneous cosmetic changes.
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