Re: Transfering text files from iie to pc

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

gedalia@mofet.macam98.ac.il wrote:

>How do I transfer Apple iie text files written by DOS word processor to
>a PC?
>
>So far I've been using a very cumbersome syste:m: uploading the file to
>my Internet host's server by  "Send files option from Proterm. Actually
>it works as "Print to the UNIX screen". The Upload involves 6 steps. The
>steps are::
>1. Convert some text files into Prodos,
>2. Start the Proterm comm - Prodos,
>3. Login by phone, with Proterm comm, to the Internet host,
>4. Enter the host UNIX system and open a file:- vi command,
>5. Load a Prodos file to the Proterm and use the "send file" option as
>ASCII,
>6. Then save the file.
>Steps 4-6 took more then 5 minutes for a 10 "blocks" file -my modem is
>"only" 2,400.
>
>Downloading  and converting to a doc file is easy: Downloading 10 files
>to the PC is done by FTP and takes about 2-3 minutes. Converting a
>downloaded UNIX-ASCII file to a doc file takes less then a minute.
>
>Since I have many files to transfer to the PC, I'm looking for a short
>cut.
>I wonder whether it is possible to connect  directly the iie to the PC -
>modem to modem through the telephone line.
>
>I can't use the "Null modem" system because my PC has a parallel port
>only.

Since your PC has no serial ports built in and you have no serial
card, just an internal modem, there is no point in buying a serial
card just to do the transfer.

I don't know how the phone companies in Italy work, but those in
the area of the USA I live in play a rapid beep-beep-beep for one
or two minutes when you take the phone off the hook.  After that,
the line drops completely silent and I can do modem to modem
transfers over my phone line...

Basically, take your telephone handset off the hook and wait until
the line becomes silent.  Once that happens, have Proterm up
and running on the IIe and whatever terminal program you use up
and running on the PC.  Go into VT100 terminal mode on both
units and type ATD on one computer and ATA on the other (does
not matter which is which as long as one is one and the other is
the opposite)...you DO want to execute the ATD computer first,
though...

Once the two modems are connected, send your files via
Zmodem.  Just select the whole batch of files using ProTERM on
your IIe and you can just take a break while the computers work
on the files automatically...