Software/Data Repository & HP software

Leon Martin (martin@cobra.path.monash.edu.au)
Sat, 5 Nov 1994 15:39:55 +1000

The idea of having a Cytometry Data Repository for a common collection of
data files and software is great.
After attending the internet workshop at ISAC, a problem came to mind,
which has been discussed before on this list, but not solved to my
knowledge.
Despite being superceded by BD, many people will be using HP computers for
quite a while I would imagine.

The question is, how can we upload/download HP pascal programs to a central
internet site (or any other computer) using binary mode ftp?

If you haven't come across this problem before it goes as follows:
if you transfer an HP pascal program ( .CODE file) to another computer and
then transfer the file back from the remote computer to the HP, the HP will
not execute the program saying `it is not a CODE file'. Although the file
comes back with the same name, the HP operating system doesn't consider it
a .CODE file any longer!

If you use NRC's Fusion software on your HP, NRC have a special transfer
mode for doing this (though BD didn't include it in their version of
Fusion; FACSnet!).
I thought I'd got around this problem years ago, but on coming back to it I
don't think I had. The standard HP pascal manuals, that BD supply, talk
about the different file types but not in enough detail.

If anyone knows of a way to solve this problem or how HP implement the file
types in the operating system I'd be keen to know. A few solutions come to
mind but without the above knowledge I haven't made any progress yet.

Thanks,
Leon.

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