tanksley> In article <RDONG.94Nov23123746@chow.uci.edu> rdong@math.uci.edu (Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}) writes:
>Does that sound like the #$%^ Macintosh? I've to use one at work and can't
>figure out how to ftp binary files to it. I think it has something to do
>with the "Resource Fork" and "Date Fork" etc. I spent some time with Apple
>tech support and didn't get any reasonable answer. I suspect the same kind
>of thing is happening here. Does GEOS have the equivalence of BinHex?
tanksley> Totally different problem here. No, Geos doesn't need BinHex,
tanksley> because all info abut a file is stored in the file. The problem
tanksley> he's referring to is that different programs use different
tanksley> formats. The only conversion program I'm aware of is
tanksley> PalmConvert, although perhaps you could just copy the NoteBook
tanksley> over to your GeoPublish installation-- it should work.
I bought a serial cable and did some experiments. If I copy a file to
another host and copy it right back, it was recognized w/o problem (using
ZDOS.) So the problem Ken was experiencing may due to the "rename" part,
because the filename is encoded in the file itself (to make it OO?).
I have no luck to use any of the file transfer programs in DOSEMU under
linux (including GeoPublish). It is really annoying to boot DOS to the do
the file transfer and then boot into Linux to read the files in Emacs. I
doubt the file transfer protocol is that complicated. Does it following
some kind of standard? Where can I find it? Is ZDOS source available? Is
it covered by GPL by any chance? If I could watch it under DOSEMU, I can
probably hack some trivial shell scripts to do it.
Regards,
Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} Department of Mathematics
rdong@math.uci.edu University of California
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