jhess@orion.oac.uci.edu (James Hess) (12/06/90)
Has anybody out there successfully transfered their files on disc from the original Shugart A400 drive and TI controller to an IBM format drive? I once managed a transfer via modem, but would like to know if there is a slicker way to get my TIWRITER files into Wordperfect or another IBM wordprocessor. Jim
Bob.Whiston@p4.f477.n104.z1.METRONET.ORG (Bob Whiston) (12/08/90)
In a message to All <06 Dec 90 19:11:00> James Hess wrote:
JH> Has anybody out there successfully
JH> transfered their files on disc from the
JH> original Shugart A400 drive and TI
JH> controller to an IBM format drive? I once
JH> managed a transfer via modem, but would
JH> like to know if there is a slicker way
JH> to get my TIWRITER files into Wordperfect or another IBM wordprocessor.
Hmmmmmmm... It's been a while... I think I used a nul-modem cable between my two (99/4a & MESSY-DOS) RS-232 ports. I think I used 4/aTalk and Procomm and `uploaded' to the MESSY-DOS as a `text' file and and `downloaded' from the 99/4a as an ASCII file transfer then loaded in WordStar and Word as ASCII .txt files. The transfer, was I think, like posting a prepared message to a BBS and was able to do a sufficient job of handling some very `strangely' formated files. I've had worse times trying to go
from the MESSY-DOS box to the 99/4a because of file size (I try to get the 99/4a to `swallow' 300k files and it `chokes' for some strange reason <Grin, Duck & Run>!).
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