Yes, as far as I can recall Laplink had this exact facility, perhaps
using the CTTY command instead of COPY, but I may be thinking of some
other program.
Writing such a bootstrap would be an interesting exercise.
LJW
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 22:21, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi
> I'm almost sure I'd done this in the past to
> get something like laplink running on a remote machine.
> I suspect that the code specifically had no ^Z
> until the end of the file and it was just a minimum
> bootstrap program to load the rest.
> One could always edit the file by changing any ^Z to
> something else. Once on the new machine, just change them
> back.
> I do remember that the name of the file couldn't be
> .COM or .EXE. I think the copy from COM1: didn't
> work for those files names.
> Dwight
>
>
> >From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
> >
> >On Jan 3 2005, 13:01, John Foust wrote:
> >> At 12:41 PM 1/3/2005, you wrote:
> >> > It seems like I remember doing something
> >> >like "copy COM1: FileName" or something.
> >> > It seems like I remember there being an issue
> >> >with the file name extention.
> >>
> >> And perhaps something else about setting the mode of the COM1:
> >> port for bits and binary?
> >
> >You can't, in MS-DOS. COPY uses ASCII transfers for COM ports and
> >complains if you try to force binary, because it needs to see a ctrl-Z
> >to know where the end-of-file is.
> >
> >--
> >Pete Peter Turnbull
> > Network Manager
> > University of York
> >
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