| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I keep seeing references to up/down-loading programs on E-net, etc.
I have Xmodem on my Robin and AMIC (Xmodem, Ymodem, etc) on my Amiga
and both support ASCII capture, but how in the heck are you guys
moving binary files around?
For example, I just read 1538.1 regarding DISKSALVE where Steve
says it's on ANT::LIB1:[SMCAFEE.PUBLIC]DISKSALVE.ARC.
If I wanted this ARC file, how would I get it onto my Amiga disk?
Puzzled in Reno
Terry
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1541.1 | Here's how I do it... | VTHRAX::KIP | No Dukes. | Thu Jul 14 1988 17:22 | 22 |
Basically, you'd:
- log into your host VAX using your terminal program
- copy the file from ANT:: to your own VAX host
- set up to do eight bit transfers (SET TERM/EIGHT/NOBROAD,
and, if you're connected through a LAT, break to the Local>
prompt and SET SESSION PASSALL)
- run VMS xmodem �la:
$ xmodem -is disksalv.arc<return>
(you have to 1) have xmodem on your system; commonly available;
2) have it defined as: xmodem == "$yourdisk:[yourdirs]xmodem.exe"
- tell AMIC to do an xmodem receive
That should do it. Note that since xmodem pads a file's length
to a multiple of 128, if you try to transfer non-arc'd binary files
this way they usually won't execute on Amy. ARChives are immune
to this.
There are other tips here; see 512.*, 613.*, 1186.*
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