{"id":321,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=321"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"transferring-files-over-a-serial-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Transferring files over a serial cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If, for some reason, you&#8217;re having trouble networking two BeOS machines, you can still transfer files between them over a serial connection (via null-modem cable). Download a copy of Jerome Fillon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/members.xoom.com\/JFillon\/\">SerialTransfer<\/a>. A precompiled binary is included, but so is the source code, so you can modify or re-build it if necessary. Place a copy of the binary on both machines.<br \/>\nZip up the files you want to transfer, then, on the receiving machine open a Terminal and type :<\/p>\n<pre>Transfert READ serial1<\/pre>\n<p>(of course this could also be be serial2).<br \/>\nOn the sending machine, open a Terminal and type :<\/p>\n<pre>Transfert WRITE serial1 MyPathAndFileName<\/pre>\n<p>There should now be a file in the <code>\/boot\/home<\/code> directory with the filename you specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, for some reason, you&#8217;re having trouble networking two BeOS machines, you can still transfer files between them over a serial connection (via null-modem cable). Download a copy of Jerome Fillon&#8217;s SerialTransfer. A precompiled binary is included, but so is the source code, so you can modify or re-build it if necessary. Place a copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}