frankhua@cs.mcgill.ca (Frank X.J HUANG) (02/21/91)
I am working on a 9000/300 running HP-UX & BASIC/UX. I need to transfer many data files to my 386PC but can't figure out how. I use my 386 as a remote terminal (using WIN 3.0's Terminal) of the machine in our school quite often so I am wondering whether I can hook it up to my HP through RS-232 so the PC serves as a terminal of 300. Then I can download those files using Xmodem or so. Is that possible? If not, what should I do? Any software can run on HP-UX to simulate DOS environment and thus can Read/Write DOS floppies? Your help would be highly appreciated.
franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC) (02/26/91)
I think that the MicroSoft Windows 3.0 Terminal program has Xmodem capability (I am not a PC expert, I only own a PC but no modem). On HP-UX (7.0) there is also a Xmodem compatible program called "umodem(1)". A "man -k xmodem" would have revealed this "secret". And don't believe the manual page which says "Series 300 only". There is also software (SoftPC) for HP-UX which emulates a PC, but you don't need it to read/write DOS floppies, stock HP-UX can do this. See "dosif(4)" (and again a "man -k dos" would have revealed this). With a little trick you can even format floppies. Post or write if you need this too.