#Modem Problems
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Amiga 2000, Supra Modem, JR-Comm. I can upload ASCII files to my Personal File
Area with Compuserve, but they alway contain excess characters. They are
reasonably consistent even when I alter the serial parameters. Can I find a
fix? I've given up trial and error.
What kinds of excess characters are you getting?
I believe the excess characters I'm gettin in my uploads are control
characters. They remain with the file even when downlaoded and converted to
Windows text.
Are you sending text from a word processor? They embed control codes in the
text. You can avoid this by using a text editor, or by exporting ASCII text
from the word processor.
—Betty
Thank you for your response, but no, I am using WordPerfect for the Amiga and
these are files that have been generated over the course of years in that way.
I simply want to upload them to my personal file area so that I can download
them to another computer. I can't get rid of the imbedded, garbage or
what-ever-they-are-called characters when I upload.
Why not pack the files with some archiver, and upload them to yourself as
binary files. Then download them, and put them into WordPerfect on your PC.
Then, send them out of WordPerfect as ASCII if you want them as text files.
Oops! If you no longer have an Amiga, you have no way at all to read those
disks, do you? I think you'll have to find someone who has an Amiga to do the
transfer for you. But moving the files into PC WordPerfect is no problem at
all.
—Betty
Wouldn't it be easier to do a null modem transfer or perhaps use a DOS
filesystem on the Amiga and trasfer via floppy?
That was a rhetorical question of course. If you are using Xmodem to do
execute the file transfer, then you're probably getting Xmodem padding. I can
recommend a number of solutions:
1. Archive the files using LhA or Zip.
2. Use JRComm's Ymodem protocol to upload or, better yet, use the
internal Quick-B implementation. In other words, use anything but
Xmodem.
3. Use something that is cheaper than Compu$erve (like a local BBS or a
friends system) to do the file transfers. In that way, you can send
the whole directory in batch modem using Zmodem and you won't have to
watch it or chop off Xmodem padding.
4. If at all possible, try to direct connect the machines with a null
modem cable. You can set the Amiga up to 19.2Kbps and get very near
1900cps and only have to do the transfer once.
5. If you have access to a DOS filesystem, the Amiga can write to double
density floppies and you can just copy them to a DOS floppy and
forget about all of the file transfers and/or conversions.
Lee Bosch
I replied before I stopped to think you meant software, not antiquated
hardware. I think you're right – WordPerfect has a Test I/O that converts
files. I'll try that. Thanks again!