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- From: msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross)
- Subject: Re: PCPLUS Question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.153603.2200@ssigate.ssinc.com>
- Organization: Systems and Synchronous Inc., Naperville, IL
- References: <BtM06F.p4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:36:03 GMT
- Lines: 62
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- 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.
- >
-
- Who really knows? ...
-
- >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.
- >
-
- It sounds like you forgot to issue the command
-
- cat > filename.ext
- ^
- | (or whatever you want to call it)
-
- on the machine you are trying to upload the file to. You will also need
- to press CTL-D or whatever your stty(1) intr character is set to. (I am
- assuming you are using UNIX, as one other poster did also)
-
- The process can be simplified as this:
-
- cat > filename (open the file on the remote system for input)
- [Procomm Plus] <page up>
- <Select ASCII Transfer>
- <Return> (... wait for the file to finish transferring)
- CTL-D (close the file on the remote system)
-
- The commands that you issue to the remote machine would NOT be in the
- Procomm Plus User's Guide even if you did dig it out. Of course Kermit
- is nice too, it automaticly opens your files for you.
-
- Hope it helps (tm).
-
- Mike
-
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