martin@zoo.toronto.edu (Martin Hofmann) (04/09/91)
In article <1991Apr8.163047.9040@odin.corp.sgi.com> portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: >In article <1991Apr5.222307.5567@eng.umd.edu>, Naiming Shen writes: >> I am ordering a cable(null modem) to link my PC and IRIS. Can someone >> tell me which communication software on IRIS is best to use to trasfer >> files between those two machines. I have PCPlus on PC. > > >I own a Toshiba laptop to use for light-duty computing tasks when >I'm away from my 4D/20. I find the most trouble-free file transfer >solution is Kermit for MS-DOS communicating with the Kermit >program we supply in 4Dgifts. I also use kermit to transfer to/from a PC, mainly to take files home. I have however noticed a problem using wild cards in transfers. The problem occurs when I try invoke server mode on the IRIS and then get *.c. The error message says something like, no files found. Using debug mode on kermit seems to point to kermit on the IRIS not properly exapnding the wild cards. Has anyone else had this problem and has anyone got a fix for it? -- The world is sacred. You cannot improve it. | Martin Hofmann, U of Toronto If you try to change it, you will ruin it. | martin@zoo.toronto.edu If you try to hold it, you will lose it. | martin@zoo.utoronto.ca Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!martin
portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (04/09/91)
In article <1991Apr9.132543.6472@zoo.toronto.edu>, Martin Hofmann writes: > I also use kermit to transfer to/from a PC, mainly to take files home. > I have however noticed a problem using wild cards in transfers. The problem > occurs when I try invoke server mode on the IRIS and then get *.c. The error > message says something like, no files found. Using debug mode on kermit seems > to point to kermit on the IRIS not properly exapnding the wild cards. Has > anyone else had this problem and has anyone got a fix for it? Yes, I too have noticed that Kermit doesn't seem to expand wildcards properly when you give them to its command interpreter. A workaround is to use the shell to expand wildcards: kermit -s *.c *.h will send all of the .c and .h files in the current directory to your PC (or whatever). I haven't tracked down the reason why Kermit won't do wildcard expansion by itself. Perhaps in my copious free time... m. __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." -- Vice President Dan Quayle
russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) (04/10/91)
martin@zoo.toronto.edu (Martin Hofmann) writes: >I also use kermit to transfer to/from a PC, mainly to take files home. >I have however noticed a problem using wild cards in transfers. The problem >occurs when I try invoke server mode on the IRIS and then get *.c. The error >message says something like, no files found. Using debug mode on kermit seems >to point to kermit on the IRIS not properly exapnding the wild cards. Has >anyone else had this problem and has anyone got a fix for it? We have had various problems with the kermit supplied on the IRIS. In the end I got the latest distribution of Unix kermit from Columbia and compiled it without problems. Sofar it seems to be performing well although I have not had time to check that all the problems have been fixed. Cheers, Russell. -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand. <rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>
rainer@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender) (04/10/91)
In article <1991Apr9.132543.6472@zoo.toronto.edu> martin@zoo.toronto.edu (Martin Hofmann) writes: >I have however noticed a problem using wild cards in transfers. The problem >occurs when I try invoke server mode on the IRIS and then get *.c. The error I don't use server mode. Just type 'kermit -s *.c' on the Iris. The shell will expand the wild cards. Add the "-p e" option to set even parity (wrong parity causes problems for people around here about once a day), and "-i" if you want to transfer binary files. The whole process requires less typing than server mode. -- Rainer Malzbender Dept. of Physics (303)492-6829 U. of Colorado, Boulder rainer@boulder.colorado.edu 128.138.240.246
mgoss@UTDALLAS.EDU (Mike Goss) (04/10/91)
> I also use kermit to transfer to/from a PC, mainly to take files home. > I have however noticed a problem using wild cards in transfers. The problem > occurs when I try invoke server mode on the IRIS and then get *.c. The error > message says something like, no files found. Using debug mode on kermit seems > to point to kermit on the IRIS not properly exapnding the wild cards. Has > anyone else had this problem and has anyone got a fix for it? > -- > The world is sacred. You cannot improve it. | Martin Hofmann, U of Toronto > If you try to change it, you will ruin it. | martin@zoo.toronto.edu > If you try to hold it, you will lose it. | martin@zoo.utoronto.ca > Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!martin I've used the kermit '-s' (send) switch to send files to a PC with a wildcard. For text files, execute the command: kermit -s *.c on the IRIS, then issue a `receive' command on the PC. For binary files: kermit -i -s *.xxx then use the `send' commmand (the PC treats text and binary files as equivalent, since MS-DOS text files already have CR/LF as end of line). Mike Goss (mgoss@utdallas.edu)