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From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: UNIX to Amiga file transfers
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Date: 13 Jun 91 11:34:30 GMT
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In <91162.233810MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu (Norman St. John Polevaulter) writes:

>How the heck to you do this?? My experience has been painful: I'm trying
>to get Amiga files from a UNIX mainframe account to my Amiga 500 via an
>Aprotek Minimodem-AM24 and a dial-in phone line. I've tried KERMIT...
[Painful stuff deleted]
>A. Routinely transfers files from UNIX to Amiga like this.
>B. Uses any readily available terminal. Anything on Fish disk 410 or lower
>would be fine, except for VLT (the Fish release of VLT is apparently a joke
>release that doesn't actually have all the files or docs or anything.)
>Fish 1-410 are available at my local software dealer. Above that, I would
>have to get it via telecommunications, which as I said is impossible...
>C. Uses, at the UNIX end, xmodem v3.9 or anything else that can be easily
>FTP'ed and compiled. (Please don't talk to me about Kermit, though.
>Every time I think about Kermit I get these terrible headaches...)

>To tell me EXACTLY how it's done. Assume I am completely clueless about
>telecommunications; omit no steps. If you can do this task I will... Well,
>I'll be extremely grateful, no question.

>Someone please help me, before I give up and fling myself in front of a
>bus or something...

>[Your blood pressure just went up.]
>//-Mark Sachs, aka mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu --//----- Remember the 1980's? ----//
>// DISCLAIMER: It's NOT MY FAULT!        /AMIGA   When things were so      //
>//-Kei and Yuri forced me to say it. --\X/------- uncomplicated... - ELO --//

Can't claim to use terminal software as in A.&B. but the way I always do it is
to use ftp or kermit connected to a UNIX machine from an IBM PC, and write
the file to an IBM 720k disk, and then use MSH to read off of that onto my
Amiga. It limits the size of the file you can transfer in theory, but how many
downloaded files are over 720k in size? Saves your phone bill too... still I
suppose that is what comp.sys.amiga.datacomm is about!

E.F.Pritchard.
efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs