phil@sivax.UUCP (Phil Hunt) (08/30/86)
Hello again, I currently own a MAC and an Amiga, and am having a small problem downloading software to the Amiga from BBS systems. I am downloading to the Mac because it has a hard disk, using Xmodem with MacBinary checking turned off, then try to use Digital Link to send the file from the MAC to the Amiga. If I use XMODEM protocol on both sides, the file goes across without error but the Amiga will not run the program, saying it is not an object file. I have even tried using FIXOBJ on it with no success. If I set the Mac to Xmodem xfer, and the Amiga to Amiga Binary (Xmodem with first record describing resulting files), the transfer hangs on the last record every time, I can abort the xfer, but it never completes. Does anyone know the summary of how to download, file types on BBS systems what to do when the xfer is complete, etc. I would really appreciate the information Phil Hunt ..calma!sivax!phil
danny@convex.UUCP (09/03/86)
[ eat th Well, are you sure you are using fixobj right? Fixobj produces 1 byte length files when anything you are working with is in ram: Try it on your disk only. You might want to use a plain vanilla null modem cable instead of whatever you are using now (what's digital link?) I just plain download everything to my Amiga. I don't know anything about the Mac file system so maybe you should look into that. There might be some inconsistencies between the filesystems (like icons especially!) If you are using just a cable, you might not need a fancy protocol for sources so you can just type the text. Like I say, I don't know much about the Mac filesystem so you had better check on just how much the Mac sends with its files. Hope this is of some use to you. Dan Wallach ...!ihnp4!convex!danny