xfer

[Joe Chasan]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 05:54:08AM -0700, Roger Anderson wrote:
> I am trying to move some filepro files from sco to winxp and am reminded of
> how little I know about both.
> 
> Sending box, SCO unix 5.05
> 
> Receiving box, Win XP
> 
> Serial connection, Xfer 5.0 on both machines, using com1 on both machines.
> Com2 has terminal emulator.
> 
> Following what little instructions that I have, the results are,
> 
> Sco says " waiting software instructions"
> 
> Xp just goes blank
> 
> I have no clue where to look. Thanks for any help.
> 
> What instruction do I use to clear a port that is in use?

Roger, I have not tried using xfer on XP via serial ports - in fact, i
don't think i've used xfer in serial mode in quite a while - do you have
any network connection between the two?  if not, maybe some common media?
if you have, xfer has a file mode ("-lf" flag) that will save the xfer 
session to a filename, and you can just copy the file from one machine to 
the other, then use same file mode on the receiving end to get it - if the
file is large, it is MUCH faster to do it this way.

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