getting data to an updated machine

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006, Rick Walsh wrote:
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>Top post:
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>Not for nothing.. how about a null serial connection and fpTransfer. Several
>years ago I used it to transfer from a Tandy 6000 to a Pentium 60 machine!!
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>It took a while (2 days) but it worked beautifully. Fptech even had the 8"
>floppy version for the Tandy.

I found that fptransfer was horribly slow.  Our solution was to
use gzip to compress the FilePro directories, then used ckermit
to transfer the files from the Xenix box to the newer machine (I
still have Xenix versions of these programs on ftp.celestial.com).

I wrote a C program to massage the headers when doing this from
the big-endian Tandy 6000s to little-endian Intel boxes.

Other methods we've used to transfer data from Xenix boxes is to
plug in an Adaptec SCSI controller and an external tape drive or
to plug the Xenix hard drives in an SCO OpenServer box which can
mount the Xenix file systems directly.

Bill
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