PNauman751 writes:
>
> I am kind of new to posix things and know even less about networking, all I
> want to  do is transfer a file from my HP3000 to my PC which is running Linux.
> The file is a tar file created on the HP3000 of a bunch of files that were read
> from a DAT2 tape.  (I do not have a DAT drive on my PC so that is not an
> option).  When I try to download the tar file with xmodem, it simply quites.  A
> tar file is a byte stream file which xmodem can not read  (I am guessing.)

If both machines are on the network, how about using ftp instead?

> I found another xmodem program from an HP-UX ftp site (can not remember
> where) which included C source code.  After a few minor changes I was able to
> compile and link the program using c89, when I try to run it I get unresolved
> externals for tcgetattr and tcsetattr.  These two functions are defined as
> externals in /usr/include/termios.h.
>
> Please help me find these functions, do I need to include some library from
> somewhere?

Try linking with -lcurses.  Both tcgetattr and tcsetattr seem to exist within
-lcurses, but they're undocumented.  I've never tried to use them, nor have I
ever tried to compile an xmodem program on MPE/iX.
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