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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: UNIX to Amiga file transfers
Message-ID: <22390@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 03:39:11 GMT
References: <91162.233810MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <91162.233810MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu (Norman St. John Polevaulter) writes:
>How the heck to you do this?? [...]  I've tried KERMIT. I've gotten xmodem 
>v3.9, compiled it, and tried to use that. I've messed with several different 
>terminals at this end, all to no avail. 

I've done transfers with Kermit, XMODEM, ZMODEM, DNET, and FTP over Ethernet
between my Amiga system and a UNIX system (DEC Ultrix), over modem, direct
line, and of course Ethernet.  Assuming you need the modem like most people,
and you can't get a basic Kermit program to work, the problem is most likely
with either your serial port settings or the UNIX machine's settings.  Most
terminal protocols like to be set up for 8 bit characters, no parity.  You
also have to make sure the UNIX machine understands this and isn't eating any
special characters during the transfer.  Kermit is a decent protocol, though
not real fast, but it has the advantage of support multifile transfers.  It
supports a text translation mode, like ftp; between UNIX and Amiga you can 
set everything to binary.

If you're doing this alot, get DNET.  DNET is a server protocol that runs 
between UNIX and Amiga or Amiga and Amiga.  Programs run on the UNIX system
can launch serves on the Amiga, and visa-versa.  So you "getfiles" from an
Amiga CLI, and they get fetched from the UNIX machine, without interrupting
your (possibly multiple) terminal sessions.  I think they even have a 
filesystem handler that works like NFS using the DNET protocol.  The only
problem with DNET is that it takes a bit of work to set up, and you need 
software on both Amiga and UNIX system; not exactly what you want if you're
trying to bring a connection up for the first time.

-- 
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