Date   : Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:39:30 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Transfer Beeb to PC help needed

Daniel Bowen wrote:
> xfer4 gets stuck when claiming it's transferring the program to the
> Beeb. It also insists on using COM port 1, which I hope is right, but
> I'm not actually sure, since I never use them on the PC. In any case,
> changing it to COM port 2 in the INI file (by copying the format from
> xfer3, since the xfer4 ini file helpfully doesn't include it) seems to
> have no effect, no matter if the INI file is in the program directory,
> or the system or system32 directories (where the docs say it should
> be).

Hmm, on Linux I don't think I messed around with the ini file at all and just 
specified the port via the command line.

Running 'xfer -h' (version 4) from a shell in Linux gives a list of 
command-line options; it might be the same for the Windows version from a DOS 
prompt, or possibly 'xfer /?', 'xfer /h' etc.  - there's probably a way you 
can specify the port there too.

cheers

Jules