Date   : Sat, 03 Feb 1990 21:41:27 GMT
From   : eagle!news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mike J. Fuller)
Subject: File transfers through console

I was recently given a S-100 computer system running CP/M 2.2 and
would very much like to put some useful software on it.  I have a
PC-XT clone and have downloaded a lot of CP/M software to it for
transfer to my S-100.  Unfortunately, my S-100 currently has only one
working serial port (the console) and no 5 1/4" floppies.

I can download ascii files to my S-100 by using my XT as the console
and doing a "pip filename.ext=con:", escaping back to my XT, and using
the "Transmit" (raw ascii upload) command in kermit, but only with
files smaller than 8k because pip writes its buffer to disk after 8k.
Even my hard disk can't write fast enough to keep it from losing
characters.  I can break ascii files into 8k chunks using an editor on
my XT and put them back together using "pip" on my S-100, but this is
no way to transfer lots of files.  I really need a file transfer
program that will work through the console.  That is, I want to be
able to use my XT as the console of my S-100, tell my S-100 to receive
a file, escape back to my XT, and send it.  Does anybody know of a
file transfer program that will do this?

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