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From: civir1070@ucsvax.sdsu.edu (FURRY R)
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Subject: Re: UNIX to Amiga file transfers
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Date: 13 Jun 91 19:28:35 GMT
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In article <22390@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes...
> 
>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.
> 
>-- 
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
>   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
>	"This is my mistake.  Let me make it good." -R.E.M.

   Does DNET require a hard-wired connection to work?  Or at least an
error-free connection?
  If DNET works with just a regular modem, what transfer rates are we
looking at?  Better than z-modem?

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