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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: PCPLUS Question
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.203051.17963@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 20:30:51 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mksol.1992Sep1.203051.17963
- References: <BtM06F.p4@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- 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.
-
- This is just what the ASCII choice is supposed to do. It takes the
- file and moves it AS IF TYPED FROM THE KEYBOARD. The 'receiving'
- computer, of course, has no file transfer protocol running (you need
- one at both ends), so it interprets your file as typed commands, which
- it doesn't find.
-
- >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.
-
- What file transfer protocols does the computer at work have? USE ONE
- OF THEM. If it doesn't have any, open an editor and then do the ASCII
- transfer.
-
- [With 'cat', it sounds like a UNIX box. It will probably have kermit
- available, and may have zmodem as well.]
-
-
- --
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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