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From: gary@cirl.UUCP (Gary Girzon)
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Subject: libraries
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> By the way, I got no responses, so let me ask again.  Does anyone
> think it is possible for me to transfer files from my PC to my
> Amiga in the following way?  I was thinking I could "print" the
> files from the PC, through the parallel port, thru the printer cable,
> and into the Amiga parallel port.  The Amiga documentation claims
> that it accepts input as serial or parallel.  Whaddaya think?
> 
> Lee

Yes, you should be able to do this. The READ command implements some
sort of loading scheme, however, I believe you must convert your files
on the PC into hex-character format. That is each ASCII byte must be 
represented by two hex ASCII bytes. This is documented in the DOS
Developers Manual.

On the other hand, if you send output to the PC parallel port, and then
instruct the AMIGA

	1> copy par: to filename

that whould work, although I wonder what the EOF (end of file) is.
How does the AMIGA know when to stop?

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