Receive - Data Files

For the more experienced user, this function allows you to receive data files from any other base in our system. Provided that the Modem/Port Setup is OK and the modem is on you can elect to receive files.

Activating this item should be after you and the other site agree to send data. The receiver (you) will activate this menu option. A window will say Waiting for Caller. The Sender (the other person) needs to select the files to send via his Special-Send Files menu item. It is vitally important that the sender activate the altp switch in his BDM.INI to ON. The sender having completed the above tasks will elect to send the data via the Z-Send item.

If a regular phone call comes in during this time BDM will still try to connect to the caller. It will fail so don’t worry. The correct call should connect and dump the data. When you are done the files will be available in the directory \\bdmroot\bdm\dnload. If you are not running BDM from the BDM directory substitute BDM for whatever directory it is in.

File transfer via modems require that the phone lines be in good shape. For instance, the line between Saudi Arabia and Germany is noisy and there is no way to connect at this time (1990's). I would assume that all inter-country connections will be valid. From anywhere in the United States you should be able to connect to any other location in the United States.

In the next version of this program, we will use the Internet as the conduit path for connectivity (v2.2 and above). This will break the limitations of transcontinental modem access.