Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Q&D file transfer [was Re: Help with TIP, please.] Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 91 00:14:38 GMT Article-I.D.: mcs-serv.SCOTT.91Apr26191438 References: <1991Apr26.064142.12779@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: smk5@quads.uchicago.edu's message of 26 Apr 91 06:41:42 GMTLines: 39 In article <1991Apr26.064142.12779@midway.uchicago.edu> smk5@quads.uchicago.edu (stephen mortimer kramarsky) writes: I'm a neophyte unixer (Unich?) with what is probably a very simple problem. I've got my 040 slab here (running 2.0) and I've got some nifty binaries I FTP'd on a remote host. I can hook up to the host ok through my modem using TIP, but I can't seem to transfer the files from the host to my actual machine. Mach doesn't seem to have the programs that might be useful for this, I think their called xs and xr for xmodem send and receive (?) so I'm stuck. I hope this makes senes, it's really getting me down! I'd use Kermit, but that's what I'm trying to get!! Here I am with all this great stuff in my mainframe account and no software to get it to my micro where I can use it! The standard way I get a non-connected (ie, non-ethernet connected) machine up and running with kermit and x/y/zmodem is to transfer the files by uuencoding them, catting the result to the Terminal or Stuart window, copying that out to an Edit document, save it, uudecode it, voila! To save transfer time, you'll probably want to compress the files (use compress, of course) before uuencoding them. To verify that the files are close to what they originally were, I usually use the sum command and make sure the sums match at both ends. Once you've got this down, grab x/y/zmodem from just about anywhere. I'd be amazed and appalled if uunet.uu.net didn't have them. Otherwise, rlogin or telnet to archie - quiche.cs.mcgill.ca, username archie. Then, type 'prog xmodem' and you should end up with more xmodems than you care to work with . . . If you need more, drop me a line! Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Simply press Control-right-Shift while click-dragging the mouse . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."