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- From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Re: help getting started...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.190916.17526@crash>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 03:09:15 GMT
- References: <BxMFK0.59r@news.iastate.edu>
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
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- mike begley (spam@iastate.edu) wrote:
- : Hi! I'm having a little trouble getting things set on my 7300.
- :
- : I'm trying to download software off OSU, but something's getting
- : snagged somewhere. I have Version 2.0 of the operating system,
- : a 20 meg disk, and 1 meg of ram. Here's my (rather kludgy) process
- : for getting programs to the 3B1:
- :
- : First problem: I don't have an uncompress on the 7300, so my first
- : goal is to get one. I FTPed pub/att7300/archivers/compress.cpio from
- : OSU, in binary format. Then I'm used kermit to download it via a
- : 9600 baud modem to my IBM clone. Then I floppy it to the 7300 and
- : use the UA "read MS-DOS Disk" gadget to copy it onto the 7300 hard
- : disk.
- :
- : When I cpio -icduvm, I'm greeted with the message: Out of phase--get help
-
- I use a similar method - my first mistake is to use the wrong arguments
- to cpio (there's a B in there somewhere, but it may not ebe essential)
- and my second mistake is not to set file type binary on a kermit transfer.
-
- Hope this helps - Will
- cwr@crash.cts.com
-