I guess. But TBACK's ambition was always to be a command line Swiss Army Knife for file transfer, in the absence of any client software, based on the RUN"COM:98N1E" magic incantation.
My main point with LaddieAlpha is laddiealpha was meant to be headless. It sits over there on another machine and runs. Your only interface to it is TS-DOS or TEENY on a laptop. Similar I think to Hurd's vision for dl. You could interactively use it to inject a DO file in a special mode if such a feature were added. But given many other ways to do it, and it not being its core mission, I just didn't feel a need to clutter it up. I may add it eventually just to check off the box though, who knows. Like I said my preference is to add a full-screen CLI mode to Laddie operable via TELCOM. Since then I can offer other file operations including bootstrap with a UI. For interactive TPDD emulators like mComm, DLPilot, an injector makes perfect sense to me. The idea is a human operator. "The telcom way is just simply ridiculous" I think you're overstating it. It's a nice way to transfer a text file. LAPTAP.EXE's way is better, you should try that, I think you'll like it. -- John.