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- From: jeffsj@execpc.com (Jeffery S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Serial Link Revisited
- Date: 09 Feb 96 11:18:16 +0000
- Organization: Exec-PC BBS - Milwaukee, WI
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- On 09-Feb-96 03:18:30, jager <jager@randomc.com> wrote:
- >OK, a couple of weeks ago, I asked if anyone knew of a way to transfer
- >information between an Amiga and an IBM PC using a serial link cable. Well, I
- >got a few responses, but I think that my initial question may have been
- >unclear. My Amiga system consists of an A500 w/Workbench 1.3 (no CrossDos).
- >I have no way of getting any of the utilities onto an Amiga format disk. If
- >there is any shareware out there that can allow an IBM HD drive to write to
- >an Amiga format disk, that would be a real good start.
-
- Somewhere on aminet there is a MessyDos Filesystem which will let you do what
- CrossDos does (approximately) on a 1.3 machine. When I used 1.3 I had it,
- worked fine.
-
- The converse is, AFAIK, utterly impossible for an IBM floppy drive
- controller. It simply cannot adapt to the 880k DD size and Amiga format, even
- if it understood the file system.
-
-
- >I have found many utilities allowing the transfer of information across the
- >cable, but absoloutly no way of getting them on the Amiga itself. I did
- >recieve e-mail from James Mitchell explaining that I needed a null-modem
- >connector. If there is anyone in the Atlanta, GA area who knows where I can
- >get one, please respond. Or, if I don't need the connector, let me know what
- >I need to tranfer the info. Any help I can get would be appreciated.
-
- Radio Shack carries null modem adapters, which you attach to the serial cable
- which runs between the two computers. You'll need such a cable with female
- connectors on both ends.
-
- Then, you'll need a telecommunications program of some type running on each
- computer to handle the transfer. If you don't have a comms program, I'd
- recommend trying to find someone locally who has one. It is possible to do
- transfers via the SER: device directly, but I haven't tried it, and the
- instructions would have to be for CLI commands; not something for the
- uninitiated.
-
-
-
- <tsb> *Starfire*
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