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- From: eric@chemeng.ed.ac.uk (Eric S Fraga)
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- Subject: Re: Psion 3S w/o a PC
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 10:50:26 GMT
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- Steve Hawtin (steve@thorin.geosys.co.uk) wrote:
- : My main comment would be that not having a PC or Mac makes it
- : difficult to backup the Psion, because you do not know all the
- : file names in advance. When I need to make a backup I tend to
- : borrow a PC to do it.
-
- Having a PC does make backups easier to handle but the comms link
- for the Psion does give you a scripting language that you can use
- to automate a primitive form of backup (i.e. backup ALL files
- instead of just modified ones) that will work with a Unix box,
- for example. [by the way, if anybody knows how to tell the
- scripting language that you want to send just modified files,
- please let me know... I'll RTFM one of these days, I promise!]
-
- I received an example script from Pete Phillips
- (pete@egh-qc.uucp) [Thanks!] which I modified (very slightly) to
- work for me. It essentially sends all files in each of the main
- subdirectories on the Psion, all to the same place on the host
- machine. At the end of this message you'll find a copy of the
- script I use every week.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- eric
-
- ----------------------------cut here-----------------------
- ! send files in all the main directories on the Psion to a Sun
- Setup (
- Baud=9600
- Data=7
- Stop=1
- Parity=Even
- Handshake=XonXoff
- Fail=None
- Timeout=0
- Echo=Off
- Newline="<$0A>"
- Backspace="<$08>"
- )
- info " changing directories"
- send "cd ~/misc/psion/backup "
- info "sending files"
- send "xmodem rt"
- wait 4
- transmit "m:\wrd\*.*","ym1k"
- send "xmodem rb"
- wait 2
- transmit "m:\agn\*.*","ym1k"
- send "xmodem rb"
- wait 2
- transmit "m:\dat\*.*","ym1k"
- send "xmodem rb"
- transmit "m:\opd\*.*","ym1k"
- wait 2
- send "xmodem rt"
- transmit "m:\opl\*.*","ym1k"
- wait 2
- send "xmodem rb"
- transmit "m:\opo\*.*","ym1k"
- wait 2
- send "xmodem rb"
- transmit "m:\sco\*.*","ym1k"
- wait 2
- send "xmodem rt"
- transmit "m:\scr\*.*","ym1k"
- wait 2
- send "xmodem rb"
- transmit "m:\wld\*.*","ym1k"
-
- wait 4
-
- exit
-
- --
- ........oo...ooo..o..o.o...o.o....oooo..oo...o.....o.....ooo..o..............
- Eric S Fraga, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh
- phone: +44 (31) 650 5065/4866, eric@uk.ac.ed or na.fraga@na-net.ornl.gov
-