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From: meadb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (MEAD BENNETT ROSS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: HELP! Need to transfer files off Atari 800XL
Summary: File transfers between computer NON trivial.
Message-ID: <6890@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 89 18:45:51 GMT
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	I agree with the general idea of the discussion, all the things that
have been suggested hardware wise look good, but my experience with
atari 8bit terminal programs is that they don't mesh with the terminal
programs of other computers.  My dad and I spent about 4 hours engineering
a program on the atari that would send a syn file program over to an Amiga
database (True they were different types of applications, but the data files
were almost exactly the same.)  After that he spent hours trying to 
get the database to accept the data our atari had sent it.  The moral
of the story?  Well if you are really set upon sending data from one
computer to another you can, but it is harder than it sounds.

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