3 Jan
2005
3 Jan
'05
4:50 a.m.
On Jan 3 2005, 13:08, John Allain wrote:
Hi,
Anybody have a stupid DOS trick for importing binary files
over a com: port? I have a floppy-less laptop that I want to
get Kermit.exe into.
You've obviously discovered (or knew) that MS-DOS COPY won't accept the
/B switch when one of the "files" is a device. You're not the first to
have this chicken-and-egg situation with Kermit; the Kermit
distributions have C and FORTRAN programs to turn an EXE file into a
BOO file, which can go over an ASCII link and be decoded by a smallish
BASIC program called MSBPCB.BAS (there are C and Pascal version of
this, too).
There's a description of how it's done at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsts/deā¦
which might save you some time.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York