Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!sgi!scotth@harlie.SGI.COM From: scotth@harlie.SGI.COM (Scott Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: high-speed file transfer Message-ID: <24863@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 13 Jan 89 01:37:37 GMT References: Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 33 From article , by mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi): > dbjag@io.UUCP (David Benjamin x4050) writes: >> Is there anyone out there with a similar situation who *IS ACTUALLY USING* >> a method for high-speed binary file transfer from Amiga to a UNIX machine? >> I'd appreciate any advice, direction or war stories. > > By far the best way to transfer files between an Amiga and an Unix box > is Matt Dillon's DNET. The "putfiles" command offers exceptional > throughput (far, far better than Kermit, even with long packets), can > handle transferring entire directory trees, and the DNet protocol > includes its own flow control so you don't have to worry about choking > your communications line. Plus you don't have to worry about binaries > getting munged during the transfer...it works perfectly every time. > > DNet is available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax in pub/amiga, or you > can find it on Fish Disk 145. > > -- > Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University > INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu / BITNET: mp1u+@andrew > UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ > > "I'm very sorry, Master, but that WAS the backup system" -- Slave Unfortunately, your statement is not entirely correct. Dnet is the best way to transfer files between an Amiga and a BSD Unix box. The unix end DOES NOT compile on a SysV box, and probably not on a Xenix box, either. I know, I spent some time trying do move it to SysV, but gave up (I didn't have the time for a major re-write of the signalling stuff). Scott Henry -- Scott Henry