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Author:       c8345041@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Uploader:     c8345041 cc newcastle edu au
Type:         comm/fido
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

In the TRAPDOOR support echo, Mike Hall asked this question:

 MH&gt; I've got a few file echo's set up and manually poll for a some of
 MH&gt; them, sometimes I've already got the files and so am wondering is
 MH&gt; there a way to skip the current transfer and not abort the whole
 MH&gt; trapdoor session?  It's painful when calling STD watching a 500k
 MH&gt; file come in when you've allready got it!  :8-/

Good point, I thought, and supplied Mike with an answer

The answer was well received except for one small point:  it's a bit
complicated, isn't it?  Well, I couldn't argue with that.  Andy McArdle
suggested that this would be a candidate for a Plutonic utility.

And so was born PlutReject, a small utility to take a lot of the hard
work out of the above steps, but still resulting in a renamed file in
the inbound directory with the relevant FileNote to enable TrapDoor to
resume transfer at the offset equal to the length of the file - in
effect "cancelling" the incoming file.

    Mea Culpa, Peter Deane
 c8345041@cc.newcastle.edu.au
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