| All of this information is in this conference, although you may have to go back
a few hundred (thousand?) notes. I recall getting most of the information
from an old note on the VT200 terminal emulator (also known as "Smokey" for
some strange reason"). The process is fairly complicated and there is no one
answer for everyone due to different dialup access, & modem types. If you do
some dir/title="whatever"s and print out the results, you will get there
eventually.
Briefly, this is what I did/do to download files:
I got a copy of Dave Wecker's VT100 terminal emulator off of a Fred Fish
disk from my Amiga Dealer's Collection.
On my VAX account I copied CVTARC, ARC (amiga & VMS), KERMIT, XMODEM,
& ZOO (amiga & VMS) from the net locations, such as the ones you mentioned.
You may also want SHAR and UUENCODE.
On my VAX account I set up the VMS running programs, CVTARC, ARC, ZOO & KERMIT
as foreign commands by adding lines such as the following in my LOGIN.COM:
$ CVTARC::= $SYS$LOGIN:CVTARC.EXE
I make sure all files that I copy to my VMS account that I want to download
to the Amiga, are in the proper format for kermit by using CVTARC V filename
This will work on both filename.ARC and filenam.ZOO files, at least it has for
me. "V" is good for KERMIT downloads, "U" is good for XMODEM and the VMS ARC and
ZOO.
On the Amiga I set up the serial port in preferences to match modem and dialup
line, connect modem, run vt200 per instructions. I set my directory to RAM or
a formatted disk ready for a download.
After I successfully log into the VAX account from the Amiga/vt100, I celebrate.
Then I can type run kermit. At the kermit prompt I type set file type binary,
followed by server. From the VT100 emulator, I use KERMIT GET which prompts for
the file name. I enter the file name, wait for the download, and type KERMIT
BYE when finished.
I recommend you download the VT200 emulator or perhaps the shareware Handshake
terminal emulator as soon as possible. The VT200 emulator is based on the VT100
so you can transfer most of what you read about the VT100 to using the VT200.
You will then need to download the Amiga versions of ARC and ZOO. Use them per
instructions to dearc, unzoo the downloaded files before you use them. You can
also get these programs from Fred Fish disks, disk magazines etc.
Good luck,
Dave
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