3 Jan
2005
3 Jan
'05
8:21 a.m.
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:
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
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?