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From: rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: ASCII Uploading Problems (Survey file)
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.215638.8714@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 91 21:56:38 GMT
References: <Jan.25.01.08.59.1991.21574@remus.rutgers.edu> <1991Jan27.080016.29441@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin) writes:

>(I consider it one of DesTerm's most glaring shortcomings that one cannot do
>a protocol upload of a PETSCII disk file nor write a file in PETSCII while
>one downloads it; DesTerm will translate an existing disk file if it fits
>into the buffer, but since it measures buffer use in lines rather than
>characters, it doesn't take a very long file to overload the buffer area)

A quick plug: Randy Winchester's KeyDOS Utility allows you to do ASCII/PETSCII
conversion when copying files; you can also read and print both ASCII and
PETSCII files.  This utility (and KeyDOS itself) are both in the
c128current/utilities directory at milton.

-Rob Knop
rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu