textsend

The textsend command works together with the send command to send the contents of a text file to the remote system. textsend adds the ability to send the text from command mode or from a script file. (send normally requires a user to enter talk mode and press the put key before transmission begins.) textsend also provides a convenient way to transmit record-oriented text.

To use textsend, first use send to specify which file you want to send:
 

send file name

Then enter the textsend command, specifying an "end of record" or "end of line" character(s):
 

textsend character(s)

Everything in the file up to but not including the specified characters are sent to the remote system. Then sending is suspended until another textsend command is given.

Choose an appropriate "end of record" or "end of line" character or string of characters that occur within the file. For record-oriented files, this might be the character(s) that appear at the end of each record. For "regular" text files, this might be the end-of-line characters control-M, control-J, or control-M + control-J.

In practice, you'll probably want to use goto to create a loop in your script file so that the textsend command is entered repeatedly until the end of the file is reached. Following is a small sample script file to send a text file with lines that end with control-M + control-J.

Note Since textsend does not transmit the "end of line" characters, we need to make sure line endings are transferred. We use the say command to transmit the control-M character immediately after each textsend. The net result is that we convert the native line ending of the file (control-M + control-J, or carriage return + linefeed) to control-M alone.
  

send myfile.txt            ; select file to send
loop: 
   textsend "^M^J"         ; send part of file up to ^M^J line ending 
   if err0 = 228 goto done ; error 228 = end of file 
   say "^M"                ; send carriage return line ending 
   goto loop               ; done with one line, repeat until file end 
done: 
   ...                     ; file transfer complete