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In article <90045.160...@psuvm.psu.edu>, BRL...@psuvm.psu.edu (Ben Liblit) writes:
> I was hired last summer to transfer some ancient records from an Apple ][+ onto
> a DEC.  The Apple was using old PFS: FILE software, which has very proprietary
> storage formats.  So what did I do?  I ran a serial cable from the Apple's
> printer port (a card, actually) right into the DEC.  I told PFS: FILE to print
> everything, letting *it* take care of decoding the information.  Meanwhile, I
> had the DEC thinking that the cable ran to a terminal, and had it logging
> everything that came across.
> 

In the old (pre-KERMIT) days around here, this scheme was formalized into
a program called VAXN8. The upload sequence used by VAXN8 was to issue
the command CREATE <file>, send the file to the host, and then send
a control-Z. The download sequence was to issue the command
TYPE <file>,SYS$MICRO:CNTLZ. were SYS$MICRO:CNTLZ. was a file containing
only a control-Z. The program would then capture all of the data sent
by the host on disk until it saw the control-Z.

VAXN8 existed in many versions for the various CP/M machines that
were popular at the time. I think there was even an Apple II version.

It seems that VAXN8 has died the death. I just checked and 
SYS$MICRO:CNTLZ. no longer exists. :-(

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