lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (08/14/89)
In <21653@louie.udel.EDU>, casebolt%esdc.span@fedex.msfc.nasa.gov writes: >Are the files AREAD / AWRITE used strictly for ASCII files?.... ANy help >would be appreciated... Use the /b option. It's undocumented. -larry -- "So what the hell are we going to do with a Sun?" - Darlene Phillips - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
casebolt%esdc.span@fedex.msfc.nasa.gov (08/14/89)
I have a 2088 bridge card in my A2000 and have tried using the programs supplied with the card to port files to / from the AMIGA side. Specifically the programs are AREAD.EXE and AWRITE.EXE. I tried to copy a XX.GIF graphics file from DF1: on the AMIGA side down to the Bridge side drive A: The Program appeared to come across but I sould not display the file with the PC gif file viewer called CSHOW.EXE... I took the IBM diskette to work and I could not view it on any IBM or clones either!... The manual says these files (Awrite /AREAD) work. YEP the files were transfered but the gif files would not work... What NOW????? Are the files AREAD / AWRITE used strictly for ASCII files?.... ANy help would be appreciated... Richard Casebolt 205-544-2966
higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom) (08/15/89)
In article <21653@louie.udel.EDU> casebolt%esdc.span@fedex.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
$[Problems using AREAD/AWRITE to transfer GIF files...]
You need to use the /B qualifier when moving binary files. I think
this will solve your problem.
Paul.bear@bucsb.UUCP (Blair M. Burtan) (08/16/89)
In article <21653@louie.udel.EDU> casebolt%esdc.span@fedex.msfc.nasa.gov writes: >I have a 2088 bridge card in my A2000 and have tried using the programs >supplied with the card to port files to / from the AMIGA side. Specifically >the programs are AREAD.EXE and AWRITE.EXE. I tried to copy a XX.GIF graphics >file from DF1: on the AMIGA side down to the Bridge side drive A: > >The Program appeared to come across but I sould not display the file with the PC >gif file viewer called CSHOW.EXE... I took the IBM diskette to work and I could >not view it on any IBM or clones either!... The manual says these files (Awrite >/AREAD) work. YEP the files were transfered but the gif files would not work... >What NOW????? > >Are the files AREAD / AWRITE used strictly for ASCII files?.... ANy help >would be appreciated... > Now there's a good question. I have a Sidecar and I can't get Aread and Awrite to work at all. Do I have to have an external 5 1/4" drive to use these programs? How about Janus 2.0? Any reply would save me a phone call to CATS. - Bear -- ------------------------ Signature Version 0.3 ------------------------------ Disclaimer: "He's showing signs of pressure psychosis and he has a nuclear weapon." - The Abyss Blair "Bear" Burtan, Boston University's Resident Amiga Expert which isn't saying much. bear@bucsb.bu.edu bear@bucsf.bu.edu bear@buengf.bu.edu bear@bu-pub.bu.edu enge05c@buacca.bu.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
dc@dcpc.UUCP (Don Curtis) (08/17/89)
bear@bucsb.bu.edu asks: >>I have a 2088 bridge card in my A2000 and have tried using the programs [lines about aread/awrite problems deleted] >Now there's a good question. I have a Sidecar and I can't get Aread >and Awrite to work at all. Do I have to have an external 5 1/4" drive >to use these programs? How about Janus 2.0? Any reply would save >me a phone call to CATS. Yes, AREAD and AWRITE work on a SideCar, to get them to run you must first RUN PC/PCDISK on the Amiga side. Also, there is an undocumented (in v1.0 of Janus) switch needed to transfer binary files that is you must add a /b at the end of the command line if the file transfered (either way) is binary. aread df0:amigafile c:ms_dos_file /b awrite c:ms_dos_file df0:amigafile /b However, you can not reliably (if at all) read/write to a JLINKed file during an AREAD or AWRITE. Yes, Janus v2.0 works fine with the SideCar, go to your nearest dealer, bring your ORIGINAL Janus disk and a formatted 5.25" floppy (MS-DOS formatted that is). Your dealer is permitted to copy the new Janus software to your original disk (or maybe even a different disk, as long as they see you have an original) and also to copy the AmigaUtilities MS-DOS disk (but not the MS-DOS system disks v3.3 themselves). You will need both the MS-DOS and the AmigaDOS files and you must replace ALL the original Janus files with the new files. While you're at your dealers, take a good long hard look at new manual and make notes. There are some significant changes and lots of new features. BTW, you dealer is not required to make the copies, however they are permitted to do so IF the dealer so desires. Or at least that is the last I heard from CBM about whether it was permissible to make the copies or not. Your other alternative is to wait until CBM brings out a Janus enhancer package...it should be soon. No price known at this time but it will include the disks and manual and is *expected* to sell in the near $25 price range (+ or - a few $$). -- /* ** Don Curtis ....boulder!tcr!dcpc!dc ** CIS 76703,4321 */