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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some burning questions
Message-ID: <6295@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 19:30:23 GMT
References: <697@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA>
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <697@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA>, cug@db2.CS.Concordia.CA (User Group) says:

> a) The bridgeboard software, specifically the aread, and awrite commands.
>    I can't seem to be able to transfer binary files across the bridge using
>    awrite or aread, text files on the other hand work fine. 

With the very first version of ARead and AWrite, you were SOL.  Shortly
thereafter, they came out with a verison that supports an optional "/B"
switch, which will allow a binary transfer.  Try it out; if your commands
don't have the "/B" switch, they'll complain, so you can't really mess
anything up this way.

>    Might I be able to use a program like UUencode and UUdecode to make the 
>    files into ascii then transfer them and translate them back to binary? 

That would certainly work, though it shouldn't be necessary with the right
transfer commands.

>                                                        Peter Kaldis
>                                                a faithful and devout amigan

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