xfer

[Bob Stockler]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:37:24AM -0400, Joe Chasan wrote:
| 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.

That, if fact, is the way fPtech recommends it be done.

On Windows, open \fp\docs\filePro.hlp and expand the
Utilities section and read about fPtransfer.

Bob

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