Date   : Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:03:52 -0800
From   : Angus Duggan <angus.duggan@...>
Subject: Help Transfering Files from BBC to PC

Matt Cocker writes:
>I have two main questions regarding problems transferring files:
>
>I have Xfer installed and working on my BBC B+ and PC and use BBC Explorer
>on the PC to recreate the discs.
>
>1) The files generated by xfer on the PC end are all named $.xxxx (where
>xxxx is the name & $ is the directory), the problem is when I transfer these
>to a .ssd disc using BBC Explorer I have to manually remove the directory
>letter and dot from the beginning of all the files otherwise they do not go
>into BBC Explorer.
>Is there a way to save the files with the directory at the end as BBC
>Explorer does not appear to mind this (xxxx.$) or can I make xfer save
>without the directory letter in the filename.

XFer doesn't have such an option. I'd suggest getting a decent scripting
shell on the PC and do the changes there. (For instance, in Bash you can do
'for i in ?.*; do mv "$i" "${i#*.}.${i%.*}"; done'.)

>BTW The transfer disc option in xfer will not work for me. It fails at track
>0 with a BBC error.

Is the DFS fully 8271-compatible? The disc transfer option uses the 8271 load
sector commands.

a.