On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:16:47PM -0600, Kent West wrote: ... > So, does anyone have any ideas how I can get the ppp*.deb file from my > laptop to Mom's PC?
No need to go overboard with Perl, use the shell:) make a short shell script in /tmp: # cat <<EOF >/tmp/getit echo 'uuencode path-to-ppp.deb | uudecode -o /tmp/ppp.deb' EOF In minicom do C-A Z O, to get the configure menu. select Filenames and Paths, enter, D and fill in /bin/sh then to run the script do C-A G C and fill in /tmp/getit, enter, enter and your done:) -- groetjes, carel