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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

3413.0. "downloading" by SUBURB::RUSSELLS () Wed Jan 31 1990 14:29

    DOWNLOADING
    
    I need some help with downloading from Vax to the Amiga.  I tried
    it for the first time last evening using Kermit to load "dmaster.wrp"
    onto my Amiga disk.  All seemed to work fine and the file is certainly
    on the disk.  My question is how do you run the program?  Everything
    I try comes up with zero response.  
    
    Stephen

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3413.1		STAR::ROBINSON		`Wed Jan 31 1990 15:16`	14
	Stephan, The short answer is that you have some homework to do. Look through this notes conference at the notes about downloading and, perhaps, the notes about terminal emulators. Your .wrp file is created with a file compression utility called WARP. You need a copy of it on the Amiga to "dewarp" your file. To find warp and the other file compressors, zoo and arc and lhwarp and lharc and zip and ... you will also need to look through this conference. The information is here, but there is no simple answer. Besides, if you read through this conference, you'll learn a lot about the Amiga and "meet" some nice Amiga addicts here. Good luck, Dave
3413.2	List of archive programs	BOMBE::MOORE	BaN CaSe_sEnSiTiVe iDeNtIfIeRs!	`Wed Jan 31 1990 20:36`	16
	It might be helpful to put some of this information together in a convenient place, so here's a list of commonly used file types and which programs you need to unpack them... File Name Archiver Program --------- ------------------------ [ File archivers - unpack into device/directory of your choice. ] .ARC ARC (VMSSWEEP.EXE on VAX) .ZOO ZOO (VMSZOO.EXE on VAX) .ZIP PKAZIP (no VAX version) .LHZ LHARC (no VAX version) [ Disk archivers - must be unpacked onto blank floppy, producing ] [ exact duplicate of original disk, including boot block, etc. ] .WRP WARP, UNWARP .LHW LHWARP
3413.3		LEDS::ACCIARDI		`Wed Jan 31 1990 23:23`	25
	Stephan, it looks like you've made it over most of the hurdles if you were able to get something with a .wrp suffix onto a disk. You next need to download the WARP program from the e-net to your Amiga and place it in your c: directory. If you have a second floppy, put the disk with the .WRP file there, and put a freshly formatted floppy into df0: (WARP will only unpack to df0:) From the CLI, type 'WARP WRITE <PATH:FILE.WRP>' and the WARPed disk will unpack itself to df0:. Likely places to find files on the e-net are TAPE and NORSE. Also, please upgrade your downloading capabilities to Xmodem or Zmodem. Kermit is ancient history, and is soooooo slooooowww. You might want to check out Handshake or VLT for an up-to-date Amiga terminal program. Lastly, please don't be offended if asked to do a little digging for information. This is a huge conference, and a little selective searching can find the answer to almost any question. Just about every aspect of transferring files to and from a Vax has been covered in more notes than you'd believe. Good keywords to search for are 'download' 'upload' 'xmodem' 'zoo' 'warp' 'lharc' etc. Good luck. Ed.