#Communication and POS
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Hello everybody,
For my first visit in Decunet, I have a question which is a little
weird.
I have to transfer some text files from a PC350 Professional (Dec)
acintosh.
Does anyone know if I can find here a communbication software
under POS that can send files?
Thank you for any help
db
Denys,
Welcome to the DECPC Forum.
The Professional is actually a PDP-11 minicomputer in personal-computer
packaging, so it's primary "home" here on CIS is in the PDP-11 Forum (GO
PDP11 — note, no hyphen).
However, since I have a couple of Pros and know a lot about 'em…
Part of your message is garbled but I gather you want to transfer files
from a Pro to a Mac.
Two ways come to mind.
The first is to use the Pro/Communications product from Digital
(discontinued but available from the DECUS library), in combination with
some Mac program that will simply capture incoming data to a file.
Pro/Communications only supports the DDCMP file-transfer protocol, but you
can also send files with _no_ protocol.
The second is to use Kermit, which is also available from the DECUS
library, in combination with some Mac program that speaks the Kermit
protocol (I'm sure there is one, but I don't use Macs so don't know what
program to tell you to look for). I think you'll also find Kermit in the
PDP-11 Forum.
-Bill