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- XCLONE - Copy Utility for XPORT.EXE
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- Version 1.2
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- Copyright (C) 1992 by Digital Innovations
- All rights reserved.
-
- If you would like to use XPORT, the D. I. File Transporter,
- but you don't already have a way to transfer files between two
- systems with different disk sizes, or incompatible disk formats
- (or the program you do have just WON'T WORK), this utility will
- allow you to get XPORT.EXE to the system that doesn't have it.
- All you need on the inaccessible system is your DOS disk, with the
- files MODE.COM and DEBUG.COM. Just run XCLONE on the system that
- has XPORT.EXE on it, and follow the simple directions.
-
- Basically, you will be following these steps:
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- 1) Connect a null modem cable to both systems.
-
- 2) Run XCLONE on the source system (be sure XPORT.EXE is in the
- same directory as XCLONE).
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- 3) Boot the other system - should be at the DOS prompt.
-
- 4) Type "MODE COMx:96,N,8,2", followed by ENTER, then type "CTTY
- COMx", followed by ENTER on the other system - its console
- will now be redirected to the specified serial port.
- (The 'x' in COMx is the port number that the cable is
- connected to, COM1 or COM2).
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- 5) Hit any key on the source system. XCLONE will ask you to
- verify the destination drive and directory. If you approve
- the destination, it will create a copy of XPORT.EXE on the
- other system's disk.
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- XCLONE takes control of the target system, runs DEBUG, sends
- a short loader program to it, starts it up and transfers the
- contents of XPORT.EXE into the target system's memory (the
- transfer and verification process takes less than a minute). It
- then commands DEBUG to write the data to the disk, and names the
- resulting file XPORT.EXE.
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- The cable that you use must include a connection between the
- DTR output on the source system and the DSR input on the target;
- this is required by the DOS CTTY function. On 25-pin connectors,
- DTR is pin 20 and DSR is pin 6. On 9-pin connectors, DTR is pin 4
- and DSR is pin 6. Or, you can just connect DTR to DSR on the
- target system end of the cable - that makes CTTY happy, too. On
- some systems, either MODE or CTTY doesn't appear to enable DTR,
- however; in this case, try doing a copy of a short file, such as
- CONFIG.SYS, to the port using COPY FILENAME.EXT COMx, before
- issuing the CTTY COMx command. DTR should then be enabled,
- allowing CTTY to work.
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- Helpful tip: If for some reason you have XPORT on one
- system, and XCLONE on the other, and you need to get XCLONE itself
- to the other system, you can transfer XCLONE disguised as XPORT.
- Just copy XCLONE.COM to XPORT.EXE, run XCLONE, and let it transfer
- its disguised copy. Once transferred, you can then rename it to
- XCLONE.COM on the other system.
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- Ken Logsdon
- Digital Innovations
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