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- Starting the program
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-
- To start pcucp use the command line
-
- pcucp [config file]
-
- where [config file] is an optional argument specifying the
- configuration file to be used. The configuration file name
- should not include the ".cfg"-suffix, which is automaticly
- added. If no configuration file is specfied, the settings
- in the default configuration file apply. (For configuration
- file details, see CONFIG.DOC.)
-
-
- General
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-
- The user-interface consists of full-screen text-windows and
- the menu, through which commands are entered.
-
- The menu can be summoned from any window by holding down the
- Ctrl- and Alt-keys. The menu commands are selected by typing
- the letter highlighted in the menu item while still holding
- the Ctrl- and Alt-keys down. A menu command can be aborted by
- releasing the Ctrl- and Alt-keys before the command is complete.
-
- The commands available through the menu are :
-
- Next-window - Switch to the next window.
-
- Previous-window - Switch to the previous window.
-
- Options/Exit - Exit to dos.
-
- Options/Shell - Execute dos shell.
-
- Options/Connect - Attempt connection.
-
- Options/Disconnect - Close existing connection.
-
- Options/File-transfer/Start - Begin file transfer.
-
- Options/File-transfer/Stop - Stop file transfer.
-
- Options/Transmit-break - Transmit break (250 ms).
-
- Window/Kill - Close the current window.
-
- Window/Tty-session - Create a new tty-session (unix-shell).
-
- Note that usually only a subset of all commands depending of the
- state of the program is available. E.g. the windows-menu appears
- only after a connection to a host is established.
-
-
- Moving between windows
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-
- You can use either the menu commands Next-Window and Previous-
- Window, or Ctrl-Alt-N (N = 0 - 9) to move directly to a window.
-
-
- Pcucp main window
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-
- The main window displays various messages, such as error
- messages and messages related to the progress of file
- transfer. In the unix-end, these messages are written in
- the file pcucp.log in PCUCPDIR.
-
-
- Connecting
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-
- In addition to the Pcucp main window, an initial terminal
- window (Terminal(0)) is created at startup. Use this window
- to log in your unix host. After login run the unix executable
- of pcucp (possibly with a configuration file name as command
- line argument). Provided that no error occurs, you should
- quite instantly see a message like :
-
- [pcucp : you have 10 seconds to connect]
-
- Now select Options/Connect. After few seconds you should see
- a message in the main window :
-
- connect : connected to <host>
-
- If so, a connection is established. If connection times out,
- the configuration files in the unix- and the pc-end are
- probably inconsistent.
-
- After the connection, a shell is automaticly executed in the
- initial terminal window. If not, the configuration files in
- both ends don't probably match.
-
-
- Disconnecting
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-
- To disconnect, select Options/Disconnect. After a few seconds
- you should see a message in the main window :
-
- disconnect : ok
-
- The initial terminal window now resumes the login shell.
-
- If disconnecting fails, processes may be left running on
- your unix host. If this happens, go check this with the ps
- command and kill any uneccessary processes.
-
-
- New Tty sessions (unix-shells)
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-
- Select Windows/Tty session. A new terminal window with a shell
- should appear before long.
-
-
- Removing Tty sessions (unix-shells)
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-
- Exiting from the unix-shell is the preferred method for
- closing a tty-window. A window can also be closed by
- selecting Window/Kill. If you try to close the initial
- terminal window, the unix process is terminated, but the
- window remains. Next time a new tty session is created,
- the initial terminal window is used for the session.
-
-
- Dos shell
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-
- A dos shell is executed with Options/Shell. This is useful e.g.
- if you want to copy new files to be sent while in pcucp. Note,
- that pcucp is completely stopped while you are using the shell
- and hence file transfer does not proceed and the terminal windows
- are not updated. No data is lost, however, since the unix-end
- keeps on resending the packets until pcucp is back on-line.
-
-
- File transfer
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-
- The pcucp uses two directories in both the unix and dos end
- for file transfer. One of the directories (OUTDIR) contains
- the files to be sent to the remote system, while the other
- (INDIR) is used to store the files received from the remote
- system.
-
- Pcucp sends the files in OUTDIR one by one to the remote
- system and then DELETES the file sent. Hence, if you
- want to keep a copy of a file after the file has been sent,
- copy the file to OUTDIR. If not, move the file to OUTDIR.
-
- In the unix end, the copying a file is best done by
- creating a (symbolic) link in OUTDIR (ln (-s)). In dos
- you'll just have to keep two copies during the transfer.
-
- The file transfer has an automatic restart feature, which
- works as follows : If there is a file with the same name as
- the incoming file in INDIR and the file times match, the
- file in INDIR is assumed to be the starting part of the
- incoming file and only the missing part (incoming file size
- - INDIR file size) is transfered.
-
- If the file times do not match, the existing file is renamed
- by replacing the last character of the filename with a tilde
- (~). If a file with this name already exists in INDIR, it is
- first deleted.
-
- The file transfer must be explicitly started with Options/
- File transfer/start. File transfer can be explicitly stopped
- using Options/File transfer/stop. File transfer is automaticly
- stopped when disconnecting.
-
- If you want to remove/add/modify files in INDIR or OUTDIR, be
- sure to leave alone the file being currently transfered. It
- is safest to stop file transfer first to avoid errors.
-
- Note that Pcucp has no BINARY/TEXT file types. All files are
- transfered 'as is' without any conversions.
-
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- This file is a part of Pcucp, Copyright (C) 1992 Jouni Leppäjärvi
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