Date   : Sun, 18 Oct 1992 02:04:48 PDT
From   : pallio.UUCP!dg@mis.ucsf.EDU (David Goodenough)
Subject: transport from ibm

joneswd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (William D. Jones) asks:

> This may seem somewhat trivial to this group, but is there a way
> to transfer information to a commodore computer in cpm mode from
> an ibm compatible disk?  What exactly is kermit?

Well, there are a couple of options. If you have a 1571 drive and are
using the CP/M mode of a C128, you can write the information to a
Kaypro 2 or Kaypro 4 format disk, directly from CP/M. Then you can use
22DISK on the IBM to read the Kaypro disk.

Another option would be the program Big Blue Reader for the
Commodore, which runs in Commodore mode (I believe) but allows you
to read and write IBM disks directly on the Commodore.

Kermit would be another option: it's a program that allows your Commodore
and IBM computers to send files back and forth using serial communications.
The big problem with it may be that Kermit for the Commodore expects to talk
directly to something like a 1670 modem, which in turn only connects to a
phone line. Get the two systems by two phones (if possible) and have one
call the other.

If not, you can connect two modems together (you have a modem for
the IBM?) with a standard modular phone cord, and sometimes it's
possible to get them to talk to each other. I've done this with a
1670 and another modem attached to a CP/M machine: a lot of it
depends on the modems themselves.
     dg
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