1. From MODEM7’s main menu, you select T and again hit the return a few times.
2. Find out if the other person can read words you type. (Don’t worry if you yourself can’t read your own words.)
3. Tell him (or her) to set up his computer so that, on paper or on a disk, it’ll record what it receives.
4. Once the other person is ready—while you’re still in the T mode—hit T again, but this second time your finger is on the Control key while you’re doing so.
The screen will ask you the name of the file you want sent. Normally, that file will be on your data disk, the one on drive B. B in that case contains the articles, reports, etc., for which you may lack room on the A disk containing your programs. (But if the document to be sent is on A, substitute that letter for B in the rest of the steps.)
5. Now you type B:[name of file]. Here and elsewhere don’t type the brackets surrounding the file name—and please put the file name directly after B: without a space in between.
6. Next hit your return. The disk should start spinning, and both you and the person at the other end should see your file flashing across the screens. Following transmission, your computer will say FILE TRANSFER COMPLETED. The other person should now have an electronic copy on his own disk.
TO RECEIVE COPY WITHOUT A MODEM7-STYLE ERROR CHECKING
1. Get the two modems talking, then return to the main menu.
2. Again, select your trusty T from the main menu. But don’t hit your return immediately.