Re: Serial Link between Mac and IIgs

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Jan 18, 4:02 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> oz390gta wrote:
> > [...] I ideally
> > want to transfer files between the machines at a half decent speed in
> > SHK format so I am not stuck with having to convert SHK to DSK or 2mg
> > files before sending them via ADTPro.
>
> ADTPro uses much tighter code to manage the serial link than ProTerm.
> ProTerm never expected to see very high communication speeds.

I'm still not excited about recoding ADTPro to be a general-purpose
file transfer-er.  But what about having a .SHK automatically
converted to a disk image big enough to hold the contents (fitting to
the smallest possible standard disk size to carry the contents)?  From
the client end, you could request a .SHK, and the server would respond
with an image.  From the server end, there could be more flexibility
in picking exactly the size of disk image you wanted to create from
the .SHK and save that.  Not exactly what you're after, but might be a
worthwhile extension.  Maybe it would save a trip or two to
CiderPress.  Note that this would require porting NufxLib to Java,
though. ;-)