From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: FTP of a VMS BACKUP/SAVE_SET or BINARY->ASCII->BINARY conversion. Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7162 Posted: Wed May 12 14:04:05 1982 Received: Thu May 13 03:39:14 1982 >From GJC@MIT-MC Wed May 12 13:58:05 1982 So that I could FTP the object files for the New Implementation of Lisp (NIL) across random networks Richard L. Bryan of Symbolics has provided me with two small programs that affect the conversion of any sequential binary file into an ascii file which has enough information to recreate all the characteristics of the original binary file. The important special case of this is the BACKUP/SAVE_SET. Which means we have a powerful tool for transporting arbitrary file directory hierarchies across the networks without hassle. [It also allows easy updating of hierarchies.] You may FTP the programs from the files on the MIT-MC machine: "NUMER;ASC2BIN MAR" and "NUMER;BIN2ASC MAR" then use the MACRO command to assemble them, and the LINK command to link them. Now that that is solved, who has useful programs (in .EXE form lets say) to make available? I will be working in the next couple days on figuring the minimum amount of stuff to transport in order to get a copy of NIL, as a transfer of the whole hierarchy including sources (many megabytes) would take at least 4 hours (tests run from MIT-MC to SRI-IU). -GJC