Macintosh users can now exchange files on a network even if they don’t have AppleShare or TOPS, thanks to file-transfer utilities like Claris’s Public Folder, Beagle Bros’ Flash, and Traveling Software’s LapLink Mac III, which are available for AppleTalk networks. The latest entrant in this market is Send Express.
Sending Files
Send Express is a combination INIT and DA, so installation is straightforward. The INIT is responsible for sending and receiving files in the background; the DA lets you control file transfers — for example, deciding which files to transfer and to whom they should go.
Send Express lets you send one or more files to anyone who is also using Send Express on the network. You simply select the files from the SFGetFile window in the Send Express DA and add them to your list. Then you select one or more recipients from the list of Send Express users.
You can send files only to users who are currently attached to the network, however. You cannot address a file to be sent at a later time to someone whose Mac is shut down. This is a common disadvantage of file-transfer programs.
You can send multiple files as well as the contents of the Clipboard to another Send Express user. Express has a Clipboard preview window for both the sender and the recipient. And you can add a comment to the group of files (or to the Clipboard).
You can access Send Express’s DA in either the send or receive mode. Clicking on the Receive button brings up a list of the files that have been sent to you. Send Express lists the sender, file size, date of creation, and date of modification for each file you receive. You can then choose either to throw a file away or to save it. If you save the file, you can either use the file’s original name or save it with a new name...
Send Express has no security options. As long as Send Express is active on your Mac, any other Send Express user can send you a file. While this (promotes a free exchange of information on the network, if you’re looking for some type of security, I suggest you use a program like LapLink Mac III.
Express It
Send Express supports multiple files and multiple addresses, and it runs in the background. It also works across network zones (LapLink Mac III does not), which makes it useful for large networks as well as small ones. Send Express even monitors your Mac usage, slowing down file transfers while you’re working with another application, to intrude less on your work. But I would like to have some store-and-forward capability so that files could be addressed to inactive users and sent at a later time. If you Intend to transfer files to users not currently active on the network, I suggest using either Flash or an E-mail program. And if you’re a stickler for security, then I suggest using LapLink Mac III because of its three levels of password protection and its ability to retrieve files from other Macs, in the background, without user intervention.
Kosiur, Dave. (November 1990). Send Express 1.0. Macworld. (pg. 254).
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Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
