TKermitFTP - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Jan 2005

Hi
 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. I recall using
something other than .EXE and then changing
it to .EXE with RENAME. It has been some time
but it was something like that.
Dwight

...
 From: "Joe R." &lt;rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com&gt;

At 01:08 PM 1/3/05 -0500, you wrote:
 Hi,
   Anybody have a stupid DOS trick for importing binary files 
   over a com: port? 
  Import from what kind of system? If it's another MS-DOS/Windows system
then LapLink or FastLynx is the easiest. FastLynx has a way to install
itself to disk-less machines over the cable. LL probably does too. If one
is a non-MS-DOS system then Kermit is probably best. it's available for a
LOT of didfferent systems. I haven't used if but Dave Mabry uses it
successfully to transfer files to and from a PC and the Intel MDSs and
they're very different machines.

  Joe

  I have a floppy-less laptop that I want to 
    get Kermit.exe into.  If it isn't simple
then I'll just write a Hex/Bin
   program for each side and send the file ASCII.  It would have
   to be .BAS on the laptop side.

   I realize that taking the drive out and mounting it in the host 
   machine is a good solution, but I wanted to try this first while
   keeping the machine together.

TIA,
John A.