[comp.sys.amiga.emulations] AmigaDos->Amax II disk copying help

lapeyre@oasys.dt.navy.mil (J P Lapeyre) (06/09/91)

I'm having trouble copying a driver from the amiga side to the amax
side with Amax-II File transfer & translator ver 2.0. It works fine 
on everything except the mac binaries. The error it gives me when I
try to copy the driver is ...Error -10, Bad AmigaDOS block type.
Any suggestions? BTW, I ftp'd the file from a mac
II fx to an hp and then down loaded it to my amiga. I tried this after
copying the driver onto an ibm disc and using crossdos to get it to
an Amigados disk, which gave me the same error when it tried to get
it across to the amax side.

Please no wise asses suggesting I buy a mac drive. I am trying to use
macintosh formatted bernoullis intead. If I can ever get the #$%#@!$
driver into my system folder.

My next attack is to use Versaterm inside the mac to download the driver
directly into the mac world.

Thanks in advance,

J.P.

andrewsr@u2.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) (06/11/91)

JP.,

I have gotten the best results by converting the Mac stuff to ascii
(use BinHqx).  Then transfer the files using TEXT option.  This has
worked well for me.

If you have access to an account, upload the driver and download it
from A-MaxII.

-Rich
-- 
  // Rich    | "If there is nothing wrong with me, then maybe there is
\X/  Andrews |  something wrong with the universe."  - Beverly 

consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) (06/12/91)

In article <Jun.10.20.41.05.1991.1022@u2.rutgers.edu>,
andrewsr@u2.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes:
|>I have gotten the best results by converting the Mac stuff to ascii
|>(use BinHqx).  Then transfer the files using TEXT option.  This has
|>worked well for me.

You can even use Stuffit (with or without compression).  Since Stuffit
archives only occupy the data fork, you can get away with this:

Mac -> IBM -> Amiga -> AMAX

This way you don't get the file becoming outrageously large which can
happen with 'BinHex'.  Works perfectly for me.

|>If you have access to an account, upload the driver and download it
|>from A-MaxII.
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you're using a mainframe accound, you're stuck with uploading an
outrageously large binhex file and then downloading it again to AMAX.  I
did this for a while but when AMAXII came out with the transfer
software, I use the mac>ibm>Amiga>AMAX method and it works every time.

|>-Rich

Kris
             
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