exchanges file in minicom

[Jerry Van Baren]

You can use uuencode to convert binary to an ASCII encoding, transfer
the (now ASCII) file via cat (or use the minicom capture feature), and
then use uudecode to convert the file back into binary.  You can use
tar to bundle files together and gzip to make them smaller before you
uuencode them (making them bigger again :-).

This is technically inferior to the zmodem approach, but all the tools
should already be on your systems.

gvb


At 05:59 PM 10/10/00 -0400, Zhaobin Zhu wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I boot linux over IDE disk.
>The only connection between host and target is RS232 which is used
>to download and as console(minicom).
>
>After kernel is running on target, how can I send/receive files between
>host(minicom/linux) and target ?
>
>For ascii file, I can use "cat  < /dev/ttyS0" on target, and
>"ascii-xfr .." on host. How about Binary files ?
>
>Thanks,
>--
>  Zhaobin Zhu
>  zzhu at emc.com
>
>


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