Date   : Thu, 10 Mar 1983 04:26:00 EST
From   : Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@mit-mc.arpa>
Subject: Rainbow 100 and file transfer

Tony Petsch wrote a transfer program that will send any kind of
file fdr om any CP/M system to any CP/M system (provided that
similar ports are available to connect the two machines.)  It
works for KAYPRO and Otrona and I presume will work for Rainbow
although at moment I do not have a Rainbow.
       I wot e about 8500 words on the subject of file
transfers in CP/M (logical and physical devices and all that
crap) which apparently is being included as the documentation
for this program.
       I expect there are other and simpler ways to send files
from one machine to another, but I have not yet seen one that
was completely reliable.  (PIP will work with short text files,
of courswe, but not long ones and not  binary).
       Tony's program sends in Intel Hex format (it hexifies)
and thus does not require any thing on the receiving end other
than PIP or a PIIP-like utility to catch the parts of the
program as they come across (this goofy sender chops the file
sent into pieces short enough that the receiving system can
catch them and write to disk, then open a new files to catch the
next part, etc; then one uses PIP to concatenat the whole mess.)
       Presumably there are other methods that would work?
       I am not being hesitant about where to get this thing T
ony wrote, but it is only availabel commercially and I gather
one should not advertise here; I invite someone to tell a
non-commercial source for a universal transporter...