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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

2346.0. "Is there an ALL-IN-1 WRQ Reflection File Transfer program??" by TASTY::JEFFERY (The car behind is an ATOYOT) Tue Mar 02 1993 16:36

Hi,

I've been using Reflection, and am considering it as an ideal way for our
salesmen to log onto ALL-IN-1, and then transfer their files.

Their transfer program gives a list of the files in Windows format on the left,
and, after, a Show VMS Files, provides a list of files & directories on the
right.

None of these salesmen would be happy manipulating VMS Files, as they do not
have DCL privelige.

I have never done anything technical in ALL-IN-1, so I am asking as a naiive
person, if someone has done an ALL-IN-1 equivalent to this.

What I am thinking is that the upload program would interrogate the ALL-IN-1
File Cabinet, and provide a list of Folders/Documents. The user would drag &
drop files from DOS to ALL-IN-1, and the upload would read them in using the
appropriate WRQ program, and then place them into the correct ALL-IN-1 folder.

I am interested in preserving the nice user friendly interface that the
Reflection file transfer has, so Kermit would probably not be good enough.

Mark

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2346.1	Digital has it today?	SCOTTC::MARSHALL	Spitfire Drivers Do It Topless	`Tue Mar 02 1993 17:20`	6
	I can't guarantee it, but what you describe sounds very much like the sort of thing you can do with Pathworks / Teamlinks. Just a suggestion... Scott
2346.2	DIRECT-TO-1	UTRTSC::SMEETS	Martin Smeets DS SSO Utrecht (NL)	`Tue Mar 02 1993 19:31`	16
	Hi, Walker Rich & Quinly (WRQ) also provide a program called DIRECT-TO-1 which supports filetransfer to and from the ALL-IN-1 filecabinet File formats which are supported are : WPS-PLUS WordPerfect Lotus 1-2-3 DX ect. Regards, Martin
2346.3		TASTY::JEFFERY	The car behind is an ATOYOT	`Wed Mar 03 1993 09:48`	6
	Thanks, does DIRECT-TO-1 work with Reflection 4 for Windows, and that rather snazzy file transfer window? Mark.
2346.4	VAXLINK support	UTRTSC::SMEETS	Martin Smeets DS SSO Utrecht (NL)	`Wed Mar 03 1993 12:37`	18
	Mark, > does DIRECT-TO-1 work with Reflection 4 for Windows, and that rather snazzy > file transfer window? I don't have any experience with Reflection 4 for Windows but after my opion that's not a problem. DIRECT-TO-1 is a product which consists of several ALL-IN-1 forms and scripts which have to be installed using vmsinstal on the node on which ALL-IN-1 is running. Direct-to-1 uses the images VAXLINK.EXE or VAXLINK2.EXE and WRQINQ.EXE (these images are part of the Reflection kit) to communicate with Reflection. If Reflection for Windows also supports VAXLINK%.exe than it should work Martin
2346.5		CSOA1::LENNIG	Dave (N8JCX), MIG, Cincinnati	`Thu Mar 04 1993 14:15`	13
	However, please note that the Reflections software (and its variants?) has a rather troublesome characteristic. When you do a generic 'binary' file transfer, it creates files on the VAX with Variable length record attributes, not the typical FIX-512 expected by most Digital applications. That is, it takes the data received from the remote system, and writes it to a file with record control words specifying the length of the data segment received, rather than packing it into blocks as "pure" data. This has caused most of the mail products no end of headaches. Dave