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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

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

2632.0. "NFT and Amiga files" by SYSTEM::HELLIAR () Fri Jun 09 1989 09:16

    I'm not sure if this is the right conference but here it goes.
    
    I'm trying to get ANALYTICALC.ZOO onto my Amiga at home. Due to
    location, lack of modems etc I have to :
    
    1.	GEt it onto a PC (via ethernet).
    2.	Load onto my Amiga using PCCopy.
    
    I am at the momemt stuck on 1.
    
    I've had to rename the file to ANCALC.ZOO due to DOS limitiations but
    on using NFT to copy it from my area on the VAX to the PC I get reead
    errors due to ' unexpected  DAP at byte 2048' .
    
    I've also tried it with and without the /BLOCK operator in the copy
    command. 
    
    HAs anyone any suggestions .
    
    PS. The PC connected to the ethernet is dedicated to WPS-DOS and so any
    suggestions should not affect the users of the PC.
    
    			Thanks in advance
    
    			Graham.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2632.1	CVTARC	AYOV28::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Mon Jun 12 1989 05:07`	5
	Easy !! The file is either stream_LF and should be fixed length OR it's fixed length and should be stream_LF. Use CVTARC to change it. Alan T.
2632.2	CVTARC v filnam.zoo	AYOV28::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Mon Jun 12 1989 06:17`	8
	I checked it out, I'll bet the file is stream_LF - NFT doesn't like that so you must use CVTARC to change it to variable length max 510 $ CVTARC v filename.zoo Then NFT works fine. Alan T.
2632.3	No Joy!	SYSTEM::HELLIAR		`Mon Jun 12 1989 06:25`	7
	the file was stream_LF so I used CVTARC V to change it. Same results !.
2632.4	BLOCKhead - it works	SYSTEM::HELLIAR		`Mon Jun 12 1989 08:37`	10
	Sorry. I forgot to do /BLOCK as well. I've got it on the PC now although the copy took 2 hours - Oh the joy of NaFT. Thanks for the help Graham @REO
2632.5	<5 mins...	AYOV28::ATHOMSON	C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie	`Mon Jun 12 1989 08:55`	7
	Interesting, because after I replied to your note earlier I tried a copy from my VAX to PC via NFT and ethernet and the two very large startrek .zoo files copied over in under 5 minutes. (393503 and 714135 bytes) I didn't use /BLOCK either. Are you copying from a remote node or a local one ? Alan T.
2632.6	Ignorance doesn't help	SYSTEM::HELLIAR		`Mon Jun 12 1989 12:20`	7
	Sorry I don't know. As you may have guessed I don't know anything about PC's on the ethernet. Phyically the two are close but what ethernet sees them as I don't know. Transfer speed reported at the end of NFT was approx 300.