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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
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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.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.