gsl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Gregg S. Leichtman) (06/29/89)
I have transferred Apollo Bitmap files from one Apollo network to another
at the University of MI, Ann Arbor using FTP. After the transfer the
new files were of object type Unstruc. How can I convert them back to
object type Bitmap or transfer them so that they do not change to unstruc?
I transfered them using both ASCII and Binary file types to no avail.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
-=* Gregg Leichtman *=-krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (06/30/89)
FTP does not have any concept of file types. That is why you get an "unstruc" file at the far end. What you want to do is to convert your Apollo-specific file types into "unstruc" or "uasc" files before transferring them. There are 2 easy ways to do this under SR10. The first is to use the "tar -cvAf file_to_ftp <list of files>" command under BSD4.3. This will backup your files into a standard Unix "tar" format file while preserving the Apollo specific information. You can then FTP this file to another Apollo and unpack it with a similar "tar" command. The second method is to use the "wbak -to" command to backup your Apollo specific files to a "uasc" or "unstruc" file rather than to a magtape device. There is an SR9.7 version of wbak which has this capability. I believe it is available from one of the patch tapes (or you can probably copy it from the SR9.7 compatibility directory on an SR10 machine). Both of these methods are nice in that you not only preserve your file-types, but you can also transfer any directory structure in a single operation. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)