W8SDZ%mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP (07/03/83)
From: Keith Petersen <W8SDZ@mit-mc> Hello, Jon. You asked what the format is for the files on MC. That's a rather large question to answer. If you meant MDM711 files, the .AQM and .LBR files are stored as "COM files" in binary format. This means that if you FTP the files to yourself, you'll have to use the 8-bit binary mode in FTP for those files. You'll get them intact, complete with the 4-byte header that is used on ITS "COM files". You can get rid of those four bytes by running ITSCVT on them (see AR13:CPM;ITSCVT HEX). Some files are stored in ASCII and some are stored in ITS COM file (binary) format. The usual way to know which is which is to look at the file name. If it has COM or AQM or WQ or DQC as the last part of the filename, it's stored in ITS COM file format. This is necessary because those are binary files - the COM files and the squeezed files. I haven't had the time to split the MDM711 LBR down to individual files and them upload them to MIT-MC. That takes a lot of time. So I did the next-best thing and uploaded the whole .LBR file. You'll need LU.COM to extract the files. If you can't fit this on your Osborne disk, the best way to get it would be to call any RCPM system and use the XMODEM L command to extract the .COM and Osborne overlay files from the LBR. --Keith