Date   : Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:21:58 +0000
From   : Chris <write@...>
Subject: Re: Xfer

Hi Matt,

At 18:14 04/03/2002 +0000, Matt Cocker wrote:
>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.

I guess it could be the problem .. the DFS ROM in the BBC has a rather 
unknown history (it's a duplicate of something or other)

>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.

After much playing about I came to the same conclusion as you, but found 
that http://www.1-4a.com/rename/ helped a lot (a freeware program that will 
bulk rename files).

In the end I gave up and used 'xfer -1' to transfer over the BBC Basic 
program from here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapwas/bbc/ which then 
successfully transfers disk images to the PC via the functional, but 
terrible, interface application.

Once in, I'm using BBC Explorer to convert from single sided images (which 
is all it will grab) to double sided ones.

After everything is over I'll trawl through and see if there are any gems 
lurking on the disks that aren't in the TBL! or The Stairway archives.

Thanks to all for the help,
Chris.