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- From: slice@gagme.chi.il.us (Steve Steiner)
- Subject: Re: PCPLUS Question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.120550.22482@gagme.chi.il.us>
- Originator: slice@gagme
- Lines: 59
- Sender: usenet@serveme.chi.il.us
- Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
- References: <BtM06F.p4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <drice.714872789@ponder>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 12:05:50 GMT
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- In article <drice.714872789@ponder> drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes:
- >In <BtM06F.p4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> weller@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Bonnie Weller) writes:
- >
- >>First question is "Is this the right group to post questions
- >>regarding PCPLUS?" If not could someone please stear me in the right
- >>direction.
- >
- >>Now on with the real question.
- >
- >>I am trying to load a file from my hard drive at home onto a computer
- >>at work. I am remotely logged in via a modem (Telebit T1000). When I
- >>do an ALT Z and select page up, I get the prompt for a selection. I
- >>select ascii since the file is written in ascii, then I write the file
- >>name at the next prompt. It sends the file to the remote computer, but
- >>it is not sent as a file. Instead the words in the file are read as
- >>separate commands. (i.e., the first word in the file I am trying to
- >>send is "Dear", the computer at work reads this as a command "Dear" and
- >>I get back the message "Cannot find this command".) When the file is
- >>finished being sent, the computer locks up and I have to hang up the
- >>line. BTW, I can download a file from my work computer onto my hard
- >>drive, if after I make my selections I 'cat' the file I am trying to
- >>receive.
- >
- >>Soooo, How do I send files in PCPLUS as files. What small but
- >>important detail am I missing? My PCPLUS documentation is buried
- >>beneath a mound of boxes (we just moved) and since I am 8 months
- >>pregnant I do not want to go lifting all these to find it.
- >
- >>Thanks for the assistance in advance.
- >
- >>Bonnie
- >
- >I assume by your use of the 'cat' command that your office system is
- >running some version of UNIX. See if your system has Kermit installed.
- >If so, start Kermit on your office system in server mode (check with
- >your system administrator for the info). Then when you have started
- >Kermit on the work system, press Alt-K to bring up the PCPLUS Kermit
- >Server command menu and press 2 to send. When prompted for a filename
- >enter the name of the file you wish to send. When the transfer is
- >completed, press Alt-K again and then select 3 from the menu to shutdown
- >Kermit on your work system.
- >
- >--
- >Keith
- >drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
- >
-
- Or, on the host side(remote) if its unix, type rz at the unix prompt and
- select Zmodem when you pres page-up. You will be prompted for a file name
- on youe machine. Give it the full path ie. c:\memos\myfile and it will be
- sent to the remote as a file.
-
-
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