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> (ii) Data can be transferred using serial ports and public domain
> software. This is also very slow; several dozen data files take hours to
> transfer; but the software is free (and available from the same anonymous
> ftp site as MFI, /pub/flowcyt/hp2pc).
>
> }True, very slow, but how soon do you need the data? What is your
> computer doing at night? It's probably not out drinking (but you could
> be!). A batch transfer during the small hours of the night may be
> adequate for many.
Unfortunately, the only serial transfer software which has surfaced
during the past few years has a bug in it which makes the HP side
transmit only every second file. This means that if you start the
process and go out for the evening (to do whatever), when you return
the next morning half of your files still are not transferred. You
have to move the first file to a different volume and start the process
all over again. Some people ARE still using serial transfer mode. I've
put at least 3 pleas out on this network during the past few years to try
to locate the debugged version which reputedly existed but nobody
(including the author Morgan Conrad) has been able to come up with it.
So unless somebody does rediscover it, serial mode is twice as annoying
as it should be. :-(
Note also: if you need this method ask me or someone else who has it
to send you an HP floppy disk with the HPTOIBM.CODE program. Since
you have no way to move a DOS file to the HP, this is the only way
to get the transmitting program on the HP.
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