TKermitFTP

Hi I'm almost sure I'd done this in the past to get something like laplink running on a remote machine. I suspect that the code specifically had no ^Z until the end of the file and it was just a minimum bootstrap program to load the rest. One could always edit the file by changing any ^Z to something else. Once on the new machine, just change them back. I do remember that the name of the file couldn't be .COM or .EXE. I think the copy from COM1: didn't work for those files names. Dwight >From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> > >On Jan 3 2005, 13:01, John Foust wrote: >> At 12:41 PM 1/3/2005, you wrote: >> > It seems like I remember doing something >> >like "copy COM1: FileName" or something. >> > It seems like I remember there being an issue >> >with the file name extention. >> >> And perhaps something else about setting the mode of the COM1: >> port for bits and binary? > >You can't, in MS-DOS. COPY uses ASCII transfers for COM ports and >complains if you try to force binary, because it needs to see a ctrl-Z >to know where the end-of-file is. > >-- >Pete Peter Turnbull > Network Manager > University of York >