bbs@bluemoon.UUCP (BBS login) (10/11/90)
Hi all!
I just recently got an account on a VAX at Ohio State and there I
got a taste of FTP. The idea is really cool <and fast!>, but I got
problems anyhow. The basic problem is with getting the files ftpeed to my
VAX account to my ST.
Here's why: My account doesn't have the 'privilege' of calling in
to the vax from my house and the VAXstation doesn't support the ms-dos (ST
compatible) format.
Here are a few solutions I tried:
--> There's a utility called pcdisk available from DCL Command which
writes in messy-dos format, but High Density only (unreadable by ST--I
tried it).
-->> There's a facility somewhere at Ohio State which does the transfer
onto a floppy from one's account in messy dos format, but they probably
got 1.2 or 1.44 meg drives too.
-->>> Sysop of Bluemoon.uucp offered to help (greatly appreciated
effort), by rendering his 1.2 or 1.44 meg drive so that I could transfer files
written in hd format to my ST over the modem.
The last two solutions are OK, except
that I don't wanna be running around with disks like a crazy
hacker all the time.
Has anybody got any other suggestions? How do you take care of
your FTP?
Archbold
osu-cis!n8emr!bluemoon!archbold
Disclaimer: I haven't seen Veronica lately!iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh) (10/11/90)
In article <1cRuq1w163w@bluemoon.UUCP> bbs@bluemoon.UUCP (BBS login) writes: > >-->> There's a facility somewhere at Ohio State which does the transfer >onto a floppy from one's account in messy dos format, but they probably >got 1.2 or 1.44 meg drives too. > You should have no trouble reading/writing/formatting 720 K diskettes on a 1.44 MB drive. The same is not true of 360 K diskettes and 1.2 MB drives. The difference between a 720 K diskette and a 1.44 MB diskette is only the sectors per track. The differences between a 360 K disk and a 1.2 MB disk are a bit more drastic. The most important one is that the tracks on a 1.2 MB disk are only half the width of those on the 360 K disk. You can usually get interchangeability between 360 K drives and 1.2 MB drives, but you can't depend on it. il -- a clever .sig file