Re: adtn.dmp & dos33.dmp question

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

sonick wrote:

>Quick question, and this might just be a  memory jogger as I have not
>been in the IIe environment for a long long time.
>
>I finally got my serial transfer of *.dmp to work, and I would elaborate
>why i was unable to before but it's too embarrassing.
>
>My question is, after transferring adtn.zip (or any variants), I am left
>with the end of the file on the display, and  a '*' prompt. The instructions
>at the end of adtn.dmp to save to disk did not work, no disk activity.
>I am not sure what to do at the * prompt, BASIC commands do nothing.
>
>In the case of dos33.dmp, it transfers fine as well, but at the end of the
>file,
>the disk drive just starts spinning, and control of the terminal is never
>relenquished
>to the user, it just hangs. I tried "IN#0" on both the pc and the apple, no
>dice.
>
>Both behaviors are consistent. Any ideas ?

If you are left at a "*" prompt--the Apple II monitor--type ctrl-C RETURN
to get back into BASIC, then use the familiar commands.

The drive spinning sounds like the dump file contains commands to
save the file to disk.  Do you have a disk in the drive?

-michael

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