Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!IRUCCVAX.BITNET!CBWP8008 From: CBWP8008@IRUCCVAX.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: cpm Message-ID:Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 10:21:00 EDT Article-I.D.: SIMTEL20.KPETERSEN.12317278993.BABYL Posted: Wed Jul 8 10:21:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:07:30 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 22 I don't use cpm much but i have a small problem with a machine here i'm trying to get software and data off of. the software is ok (ascii transfer) but i'm having to uuencode all the data files to transfer them. The machine is a british made systime 500. which is cpm86 based with cpm 2.2. It uses 4 4mb removable cartridges and 5 rs232 ports at the back and can support up to 4 users. I thought that rainbow(also cpm86) kermit might work on this so i hexified it and transfered to the systime and it worked... sort of. The program ran but the data didn't seem to be coming out of any of the ports in the back of the machine. what i want to know is if there is any way of defining a communications channel in cpm (as you can see i know very little about it) or is kermit hardware specific for the rainbow, which has a coms port. If it is is there any ready written communications software written in ms-basic ( the only language around on the systime) which i could port on to it. Uuencoding isn't so bad for the smaller files (<250K) but there are several here which exceed 2.5mb so i could be here for YEARS transfering them Thanx Ian Murphy (^v^)