Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> Jim asks:
>
> > 2.      A colleague wishes to transmit an HP-3000 program and associated
> >  message catalogue files to a remote site via ftp using a PC at the
> >  remote site as the ftp server.  What is the current state-of-the-art
> >  practice for this?.  Does one still use (shudder) ryder?
>
> FTP, using binary transfer, will work fine for transferring the file to the
> PC ftp server, but it's important to note that all of your MPE file
> characteristics will be lost in the transfer.
>
> If you wish to then download the MPE file from the PC to a second HP3000,
> you're going to have to tell the second system how to build the file(s) using
> the build parameters.

Unless you first wrap your files in a tar or :STORE-to-disk archive on the
first 3000.  Then you can unpack them on the second 3000 without losing any of
the MPE file characteristics.
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