Re: Serial Link between Mac and IIgs

[oz390gta <oz390gta@gmail.com>]

On Jan 19, 9:13 am, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Having ADTPro take a .SHK and convert it to an image before
transmission would be better than the current back and forward in
ciderpress, given that I am running ciderpress in Parallels on my Mac.
For small files a 140k disk image would be fine and then a 800k image
for bigger files.

Having a version of ADTPro that just transfers .SHK files to a volume
would be even better ;-)
I love ADTPro and it is SOOMMEE much simpler than setting up 2 comms
programs.

Craig