marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister) (10/20/88)
I know this is probably a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it anyhow. I often see some pretty interresting things coming by in the amiga binaries and source groups, but I just can't seem to get them on my Amiga. I have no modem in my amiga, and I read news from an HP 9000 under UNIX. How the hell can I get these (sometimes) wunderfull programs on my amiga? I can write to 3.5 inch drives, so that should be no problem, but what format should I use? Please help, because I see all these nice programs pass by, and I just can't touch them. Marco Lesmeister.
dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) (10/22/88)
In article <7880003@hpuamsa.UUCP> marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister) writes: >I know this is probably a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There are no stupid questions if you need to know. >anyhow. I often see some pretty interresting things coming by in >the amiga binaries and source groups, but I just can't seem to get >them on my Amiga. I have no modem in my amiga, and I read news from ^^^^^^^^ >an HP 9000 under UNIX. I don't mean to be facetious, but get one. You can get 1200 baud modems these days for under a hundred dollars, and if your time is worth anything at all, you'll spend a lot more than that trying to do it any other way. Once you have a modem, assuming you have modem access available on your UNIX machine, there are a number of public domain or shareware terminal emulators that can do Xmodem or Kermit file transfers. Or you can get the AmigaUUCP software from Dan Schein/Bill Loftus (E-mail to ...!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers) and transfer it via uucp. >How the hell can I get these (sometimes) wunderfull programs on my >amiga? >I can write to 3.5 inch drives, so that should be no problem, but >what format should I use? The chances of being able to write the Amiga format are about zero. It uses both a non-standard raw data format and a non-standard file structure. If you really have to do it that way, you might be able to write it in IBM PS/2 format and use one of the PC file transfer routines (Dos2Dos?). If you really have to do it without a modem, you could physically bring the Amiga to where your UNIX machine is, hook up it's serial port (probably via a NULL modem) to the machine, and use one of the terminal emulators to use the Amiga as a terminal to UNIX. Then download the files as though you had a modem. If you wait awhile, most of the interesting stuff usually ends up on Fish disks, which you can get directly from Fred Fish for $6 dollars each. Fred usually posts a listing of what's on each one when he gets a new batch ready, and John Kjellerman (kjohn) recently posted a complete list together with some other public domain collections. >Please help, because I see all these nice programs pass by, and I >just can't touch them. Hope this helps. > >Marco Lesmeister. Dave Hanna -- Dave Hanna, Daltech MicroSystems | "Do or do not -- There is no try" P.O. Box 584, Bedford, TX 76095 | - Yoda (214) 358-4534 (817) 540-1524 | UUCP: ...!killer!gtmvax!dave |
randy@oetl.UUCP (Randy O'Meara) (10/26/88)
In article <155@dms3b1.UUCP> dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) writes: >In article <7880003@hpuamsa.UUCP> marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister) writes: >>I know this is probably a stupid question, but I'm going to ask it * Glad you asked! It has been done! >I don't mean to be facetious, but get one. You can get 1200 baud modems ^^^^ don't you mean 300 or maybe 150! >these days for under a hundred dollars, and if your time is worth anything >at all, you'll spend a lot more than that trying to do it any other way. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ * I guess this is true if you don't believe that others may have experienced this situation (and overcome it)! [other stuff on modem applications deleted] * A modem really would open up a great frontier for you, but do yourself a favor and spend $150 for a 2400 baud modem. Back to the point in question. I run a HP9000 series 320 with HP-UX 6.x, and have modified the ``mtools'' package (comp.sources.unix Vol_11 ) to use HP9122 3.5" drives. On the Amiga end, I use PcCopy/PcFormat (from the 1.2 Extras disk) and pcPatch (a program that patches PcCopy/PcFormat to use the Amiga's 3.5" drives). The only problem that exists (I feel) is the inability to read/write 720k MS-DOG disks (limited to 360k). I would be glad to send off the ``mtools'' cdiffs for the mod to use 3.5 inchers by mail request. Always glad to help, Randy -- _______________________________________________________________ < Randy O'Meara -- LMSC -- SCF > < EMAIL: {pyramid,leadsv}!oetl!randy PHONE: (408) 425-6249 > <_______________________________________________________________>