burton@fortune.UUCP (02/27/84)
#N:fortune:25500007:000:409 fortune!burton Feb 27 09:55:00 1984 For me this question is academic, since I'm not on ARPANET, and cannot down- load from SIMTEL20. For those who are/do, "How do you transfer your downloaded files onto a floppy for use on your CP/M system" Philip Burton 101 Twin Dolphin Drive Fortune Systems Redwood City, CA 94065 (415) 595-8444 x 526 - - - {allegra decvax!decwrl!amd70 cbosgd harpo hpda ihnp4 sri-unix}!fortune!burton
towson%amsaa@sri-unix.UUCP (02/28/84)
From: David Towson (CSD) <towson@amsaa> Philip - There are two families of programs that are commonly used to download files from a timeshare machine to a CP/M machine. One is based on a protocol created by Ward Christensen, and the other had its roots at Columbia University (I think). The first is called MODEM2, MODEM7, MDM7xx (xx=two digits) or some similar name. The second is called KERMIT. Both of these are available for with several timeshare machines and many micros. Whichever you choose, there must be compatible programs running on both ends of the transfer to obtain the benefits of automatic transfer with error detection and retransmission of bad blocks. MODEM7 files are on Simtel20, and KERMIT files are on Columbia-20. Dave towson@amsaa