opendoors/historic/odtips3/TIP2.TXT

Often, it can be useful or necessary to send and receive files between
a program using OpenDoors, and the remote user's system. To allow file
uploading and downloadeding, you can either implement the common file
transfer protocols as part of your program, or you can call an external
file transfer program, such as DSZ. This tip demonstrates how you can
call DSZ using OpenDoors.

In order to see this program in action, you should run a terminal
program on one machine, and connect to second machine that will run this
example program. (You could also do this in two different windows on one
machine.) The demonstration program will ask whether you want to upload
or download files, and will then prompt you for the file transfer protocol
to use and the filename to transfer. Once this is done, DSZ is invoked
to perform the file transfer. As such, DSZ will need to be installed on
the machine that will run the example program.

The tip2.c source file provides a function that you can use to perform
file transfers. This function is defined as follows:

  int TransferFile(char *pszFilename, eProtocol Protocol, char bReceive)

The first parameter should contain the name of the file or files to be
transfered. The second parameter should specify the file transfer
protocol to use, and should be one of the following enumerated
constants:

   XModem
   XModemCRC
   XModem1K
   YModem
   YModemG
   ZModem

The third parameter specifies whether the file is being send (FALSE) or
received (TRUE). From the user's perspective, sending the file means
downloading, and receiving the file means uploading.

The TransferFile() function returns TRUE if the file transfer was
completed, and FALSE if it was not.

If the DSZ program is not present in the system's PATH or the current
directory, then the global variable szDSZFilename must be set to the
full path and filename of the DSZ program. This could be done by adding
a custom OpenDoors configuration file line with a keyword such as
"DSZPath".