bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (10/12/89)
There have been some really nifty programs coming through here recently.
Trouble is, I can't get them to work properly on my C128.
Here's what I do.
I trap the postings of uuencoded files here from comp.sys.cbm (for example,
the DesTerm program that came across in five sections not long ago).
I join the postings of split files, trimming off headers and signatures,
until I get one nice big complete uuencoded file.
(For the DesTerm uuencoded file, I ran it through the program that re-inserts
trailing spaces - the program that was posted here a while ago, too.)
Then I uudecode the file. No problem there. I get a file such as
'desterm.sda'.
Then I download it to a Macintosh first via Kermit, because the Unix
machine here does not support Xmodem. (I use binary mode.)
That accomplished, I finally send it over a direct computer-to-computer
cable to my C128 as a PRG file.
DesTerm.sda made it over to my C128 fine. I ran it, and got the lines:
==========================
This S.D.Archive contains:
==========================
desterm
... after which my 128 hanged on me.
CP/M files that I get from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil similarly get
transferred to CP/M mode *almost* perfectly - the CP/M library program
NULU152 recognizes them as libraries (those that end in .LBR, that
is!), and it can properly read the library directories to see what's in
the files, but it fails to extract the files from the libraries because of
checksum errors.
Help! Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong, or what
I should be watching out for? I'd *really* like to be able to USE the
stuff I find here...
And yes, I'd use Kermit on my Commodore 128, but first I have to find a way to
transfer the Kermit program to the 128 intact! >:(
Any help would be, um, greatly appreciated.
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