Theoretically you should be able to use minicom to perform the xmodem transfer... unfortunately I was never able to make this work when I needed to flash my modem (also a V.everything). In the end I installed Win95 into what had formerly been my swap partition, and performed the update from there.
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 01:56:45AM -0500, Jameson Burt wrote: > I wish to both interactively type commands to my modem and send files to it > via > xmodem or zmodem. > (I do not want to dial some phone number as I communicate with my modem) > I didn't see how to really do this with "cu"; > seyon and minicom want to dial phone numbers but not just the modem. > > I want to do the following for my USRobotics V.everything courier modem, > AT~X! #starts an xmodem or zmodem session. > send a file to the modem, replacing its firmware. > WHAT SOFTWARE MIGHT I USE FOR THIS DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH THE MODEM?