26 Dec
2005
26 Dec
'05
8:52 p.m.
On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:43 pm, Tony Duell wrote:
They're not currently online. This stuff was, up until a couple of months
back, on a BBS that I ran here, but my front end mailer program developed
some sort of a glitch where it would hang up on incoming calls within 7-8
seconds, and I didn't get into figuring out why that was, instead thinking
I would port things over to linux, only I haven't gotten through compiling
all of that yet. I can email you stuff that's of interest.
Looking in my
archives, I show (in more or less alphabetical order) the
following:
EPOXLINK.LZH Transfer program specific to Osborne Executive (I have
one) EPSLINK.LZH Transfer program for cp/m machine - same UI as
FILINK (That one is assembly source)
FILINK.LZH unix equivalent to EPSLINK
PROMFORM.LZH program & doc file for burning eproms
...and a few others. That "FILINK.LZH" sound like the one you're looking
for?
Two questions :
1) How to I get to your archives (URL?) 2) How do I uncompress a .LZH file? I was never a big
CP/M user back when
it was current, my Z80 machines were TRS-80s running LDOS. When I got the
Model 4, I got CP/M with it, but I much prefered LS-DOS (or TRS-DOS 6,
which is essentially the same thing). Yes, there's more software for
CP/M, but if yoy didn't want that software, LS-DOS was a much nicer OS
IMHO.
That's something I did under dos. The early versions of LZH were usable under
CP/M and gave slightly better compression than "Squeezing" or
"Crunching"
them did, pkzip from version 2 onwards compressed better yet but wasn't able
to be extracted under CP/M because of memory limitations, so I settled on
LZH files instead. I suppose I could probably fire up the dos box and
extract what you wanted out of the archives, and then somehow get it over to
this machine where I'd email it out. Or find me an LZH-extractor that runs
under linux, which would probably be easier...
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