Re: Transfering text files from iie to pc

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

gedalia@mofet.macam98.ac.il writes ...

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> 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.

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     Just last month there was a discussion about modem-to-modem over
home phone lines involving SuperTimer, Greg Buchner, David Empson and
others. Evidently, you take a phone off the hook and connect. You can do
transfers once the lines are free of beeps, tones, etc. which indicate a
phone is off the hook. If your phone company is one that keeps beeping
you forever, the connection will not work. An alternative which was
suggested is a modem-to-modem connection using a phone extension cord.


> 
> I can't use the "Null modem" system because my PC has a parallel port
> only.

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     If you are using an internal modem in your PC and this eliminates
access to the COM1 serial port, you may be able to add a socket for COM2
or switch an existing unused COM1 socket to COM2. Most PC I/O boards and
PC's with on-motherboard I/O have the option of adding a 25-pin or 9-pin
socket which you mount in a punch-out hole in the back. (The socket is
connected to a ribbon cable. The ribbon cable would plug onto the COM2
or "Serial2" pins on the I/O card or mb.)  You would, then, be able to
do NULL modem transfers via COM2.



Rubywand