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- From: crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: FTP site and SIO2PC
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.035805.11293@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 03:58:05 GMT
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- In <1992Aug17.021431.24745@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ar630@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kevin White) writes:
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-
- >I've asked this before and I will probably forget again: what is the prime
- >FTP site for 8 bit stuff?
-
- >Oh, and is SIO2PC the name of that thing that lets the Atari use the IBM's
- >ports? What are the filenames at the site? (I can probbaly find them--are
- >those the newest versions?) How much does it cost?
-
- The primary FTP site for 8-bit Atari's (is it the only one?) is
- atari.archive.umich.edu
- (User: Anonymous, Pass: your address)
- The 8-bit stuff is in /atari/8bit.
- There is a subdirectory in /atari/8bit called sio2pc with all the information
- you need on it.
-
- And yes, I think SIO2PC is what you're interested in. It lets the Atari
- send stuff to "Dx:" or "P:" which is intercepted by your PC. The PC
- then simulates an Atari drive or printer for you. Except for copy-protected
- stuff, I no longer need to use my 810. When you send stuff to P:, the PC
- can send it to its printer or to a file. At present, the program doesn't
- give you access to any ports other than the printer port, but what else
- do you need? (Well, I could see some use for access to a modem, but that's
- only if you want to use a graphic terminal program.)
-
- --PC
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