xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:49:34PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
>> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:59:53PM -0500, Tim Fischer wrote:
>> > I'm looking for that swapcpu program, but I can't find it anywhere.  I
>> > assume it would be in the fp directory along with *clerk, etc?
>
>> I dunno; the time I had to go 3b2 to SCO, I had to write one myself.
>
>Hm.  The fpxfer worked just fine for the time I went from a 3B2 to
>and SCO system.   It was really really slow, so I moved some files
>out of the directory tree and moved them individually, the ones
>that didn't have the byte order problem.   The headers in the key
>files swapped just fine with xfer.   

If I remember correctly, fpxfer ran someplace between 1200 and
2400 baud, even on directly connected 9600 baud serial lines.

I normally did transfers using compressed tar files of the FilePro
directories, then wrote a C program to do the byte swapping in the key
file's headers.

Bill
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