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.
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Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
                                                Network Manager
                                                University of York