Date   : Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:14:30 -0000
From   : "Matt Cocker" <themicrouser@...>
Subject: Re: Xfer

Hi Chris,

> I've decided to transfer my disks from the old BBC B to the PC (for use
> with BeebEm) and am having a few problems.

I have exactly the same problems, I use a BBC B+ as the source computer (My
2 BBC B comnputers will not transfer anything to the computer but will
receive the xfer program?)

> I'm 99.9% certain the cable is correct - I can issue commands with xfer4,
> and do a (R) - Receive Files. The problem is I can't do a (G) - Get disc
> image. It says 'receiving track 0' then that a BBC Error 3 has occoured,
> and the BBC goes back to 'waiting for command'

With regards to the Get disc image, this does not work for me either, I
asked about this earlier this year and Angus Duggan replied "Is the DFS
fully 8271-compatible? The disc transfer option uses the 8271 load sector
commands." I have not looked into which one is in my B+ but it could explain
the failure.

> It's a bit of a pain as BeebEm can't read the .inf etc. files - and
> dragging them into BBCExplorer doesn't create the files (just blank files
> called $.)

I can help you here but it is slow if you are transfering a lot of files.
The way I get around the transfered files not working in BBCExlorer is to go
into windows explorer and remove the $. or just the . from both files (the
data file and .inf file, they must both keep the same filename but that name
can be anything as far as I can see) The file will then copy into
BBCExplorer.

Hope this is of some use to you.
Matt Cocker