On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:10:55PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> If you need to get a small file from one RH6.2 machine to
> another, and can't use networking, floppy, Zip etc
> but have a null modem, how do you pipe data into/out of ttyS1?
> I tried it with cat; the results were recognisable but damaged
> owing to lack of stop/start control.
> Cheers,
> Jim Donovan
One way out of many, if its ascii, or if you want to uuencode it if its not.
ascii-xfr -s -l 200 -c 50 file > /dev/ttyS1
ascii-xfr comes with the minicom package on my system.
And I haven't tested to see if it works.
--
chesty
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
