Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould!iwm From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AMAX Transfers... Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 90 18:23:37 GMT References: <38758@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <46618@cornell.UUCP> <16514@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <2277@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Sender: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: /usr/staff/courman/iwm/.organization Lines: 37 In-reply-to: Patrick Atoon's message of 10 Oct 90 14:33:04 GMT In article <2277@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Patrick Atoon writes: >>1. Transfer the file from Amax to Amigados. Supposedly Amax I provides >> this capability (mine didn't) but Amax II definitely does. > This possibility came to my mind also. The only question is --> HOW ? <--. I've managed to do this as follows: 1. Start up amax 2. Run the File transfer program (on the utilities disk I think) 3. Select the format FTF disk and insert a new disk in the internal drive. 4. Select `to FTF disk' 5. Click the files to transfer on the requester The program seems to need to eject the disk and ask for it again -- if you ignore this and click on the requestor it dies. Boot using the amax disk but do't go into amax, use the file transfer program to copy the files off the FTF disk. For some reason I cannot get the file transfer program to work properly unless I boot from the amax disk, it copies 1 file and sits there with the drive light on. I suspect some problem with interrupts, the amigados side of the process is VERY slow anyway. I dislike having to use FTF disks, the only way of listing their contents is to write then to another disk! Mysterious and inconsistent error messages appear (what is Error -65 on a Mac ?). -- Ian W Moor ARPA: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk JANET: iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc Department of Computing, (The skin is mightier than the banana) Imperial College. 180 Queensgate London SW7 UK.