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- Short: Stupid Serial Transfer-program written in AmigaBasic
- Author: warlock@nvg.ntnu.no (Amund Gjerde Gjendem)
- Uploader: warlock@nvg.ntnu.no (Amund Gjerde Gjendem)
- Version: Number 1. (first and last?)
- Type: comm/misc
- Date: 28.02.89
-
- This is a Rather stupid Serial Transfer-program written in AmigaBasic
- (yuch!)
-
- Since so many UAE users whine about a way to move files to their old
- A500 and so on, but dont have anything but their WB disks to help
- them and no friends in sight with CrossDOS etc. *cry*
- I wrote this to stop the Whining (but if you actually use it *gasp*
- please send me a mail at 'warlock@nvg.ntnu.no' and tell me)
-
- Whell this is a solution how to send some small files to your incredible
- real thing called Amiga500 (but since AmigaBasic is so incredibly stupid
- (ofcourse it is, its a Microsoft program) you can only send ASCII / HEX
- files over the Serial Port so we have to make the Binaries to HexFiles
- first)
-
- And btw IMPORTANT *flash flash and so one* the hexfile cant be bigger than
- 32767 bytes (that means the binary cant be bigger than 16383 bytes) because
- the limitations of some of the seperating strings running in AmigaBasic.
-
- My suggestion is to transfer transdisk and/or some program like CrossDOS
- etc. (AExplorer if you are lucky to have Cloanto's Amiga Forever) and then
- Forget this program ever existed....
-
-
- Well, enough said... *blah blah blah*
-
- How To Use It:
-
- - On your UAE (with Serial support) you can either put in the files,
- or insert the adf downloaded from http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock
- (or if you prefer, write the files yourself (they isn't on more than
- aprox 25-30 lines)
-
- - On the Real Thingie (A500) Fire up your favourite Extras disk and start
- AmigaBasic (What do you mean you deleted it yesterday because you
- realised it was a Microsoft product?) and write the Receive program
- (26 lines) provided both on the adf and in lha (and probably somewhere
- under http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock as pure text)
-
- When you have done so send over the 'hex->bin' file (which is an ASCII
- file which AmigaBasic can read) With the Send (ABasic) program
-
- Then you can transfer any bin (smaller than 16383 bytes) to a HEX file
- Send it over (guess who to use Send and Receive) and transfer it back
- to a bin by using the 'hex->bin' basic program again :)
-
- I strongly recomend that you make all "New files" to ram:<something> to
- avoid loss of bytes (which in extreme causes locks the program, and you must
- reboot) then you can copy it wherever you like afterwards ......
-
- Hmm, have i forgot something now? Probably.....
-
-
- Contact me at:
- warlock@nvg.ntnu.no
-
- Also wisit: http://amiga.nvg.org/
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 356 213 40.1% 27-Feb-98 21:37:06 bin->hex
- 354 182 48.5% 27-Feb-98 21:37:06 bin->hex.info
- 447 255 42.9% 27-Feb-98 21:32:22 hex->bin
- 354 182 48.5% 27-Feb-98 21:32:22 hex->bin.info
- 2533 1266 50.0% 27-Feb-98 23:02:52 ReadMe
- 686 371 45.9% 27-Feb-98 21:57:36 Receive
- 354 182 48.5% 27-Feb-98 21:57:36 Receive.info
- 829 437 47.2% 27-Feb-98 21:39:56 Send
- 354 182 48.5% 27-Feb-98 21:39:56 Send.info
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 6267 3270 47.8% 28-Feb-98 10:47:08 9 files
-