Transfer.EXE for A2088 Amiga-PC Co-Processors
 
      TRANSFER is another DOS utility written for owners of the AMIGA 2000
 computer with the 8088 co-processor board (2088). This utility was made to
 enhance the usefulness of both the AREAD and AWRITE commands and can
 actually be used instead of them. The AREAD and AWRITE commands, while
 being extremely useful, are frustrating without the ability for wildcards,
 so TRANSFER enables a entire list of files to be transferred to either the
 PC side or the AMIGA side. TRANSFER can also perform single file transfers.
 
       Like my READCLK command, Commodore's AREAD and AWRITE commands must
 be in the current directory as TRANSFER. Also, DEVICE=JDISK.SYS must be in
 the CONFIG.SYS file, and PCDISK must be previously run on the Amiga side.
 This isn't much of a problem if they are all run by the appropriate
 startup-sequence/autoexec.bat.
 
      The two forms of syntax for TRANSFER are as follows ...
 
  for transferring a single file:
 
      TRANSFER -R/W[B]F "Source" "Destination"
 
      -RF  will Read the Amiga File "Source" to the PC file "Destination"
      -WF  will Write the PC File "Source" to the Amiga file "Destination"
      -RBF Reads the Amiga Binary File "Source" to the PC file "Destination" 
 
 for transferring a list of files:
 
     TRANSFER -R/W[B] "FileList" "Source Directory" "Destination Directory"
 
     -R   will Read all files listed in the PC file "Filelist" from the
          Amiga "Source Directory" to the PC "Destination Directory"
     -W   will Write all files listed in the PC file "FileList" from the
          PC "Source Directory" to the AMIGA "Destination Directory"
     -WB  will Write all files listed in the PC file "Filelist" from the
          Amiga "Source Directory" to the PC "Destination Directory" using
          the Binary toggle of AREAD and AWRITE.
 
     I find the easiest way to do a group transfer of Amiga files is to
 either write a text file listing those filenames, or if an entire directory
 is to be transferred simply direct a DIR to a file, and this file can then
 be moved by AREAD to the PC. After you have a file list all that is needed
 is to execute a TRANSFER. For example...
 
      In directory DF0:TEMP there are the 6 files I want to send to the PC
 side. First create a file with the names of those 6 files...
 
      DIR > RAM:dir.txt DF0:TEMP
 
      Now that the files are listed in RAM:dir.txt I can go to the PC side
 and transfer the dir.txt file over...
 
      TRANSFER -RF RAM:dir.txt c:\dir.txt
 
      The -RF means I want to transfer only the file 'RAM:dir.txt' to the PC
 side. Without the B toggle the file is assumed to be non-Binary (ie. Text).
 Next, I want to transfer all those files listed in c:\dir.txt to my PC
 directory EXAMPLE...
 
      TRANSFER -RB C:\dir.txt DF0:TEMP/ C:\EXAMPLE\
 
 where
 
 -RB         -   indicates READ BINARY. No F (FILE) means a group transfer.
 
 C:\dir.txt  -   is the name and path of the file listing all filenames to
 be transferred,
 
 DF0:TEMP/   -   the source directory on the Amiga side, &
 
 C:\EXAMPLE\ -   the destination directory on the PC side.
 
      Note that the entire path must be identified, including the
 appropriate '/' or '\' delimiters. To transfer files the other way (PC to
 AMIGA) is basically the reverse of the above example. Send a DIR of the PC
 source directory to a file...
 
      DIR > C:\dir.txt C:\EXAMPLE
 
 then
 
      TRANSFER -WB C:\dir.txt C:\EXAMPLE\ DF0:Temp/
 
 Extra Features (?):
      
      TRANSFER can add a prefix to all the filenames transferred if the
 destination directory delimiter is left off. For example, 
 
      TRANSFER -WB C:\dir.txt C:\EXAMPLE\ RAM:IBM
 
 will transfer all the files listed in C:\dir.txt from the PC's C:\EXAMPLE
 directory to the Amiga's RAM: disk. All of these transferred files will
 have filenames that start with 'IBM'.
 
      The length of the filenames and extensions should conform to IBM DOS
 format, so TRANSFER may truncate the large filenames when transferring
 files from the Amiga to the PC. This should work alright except if the
 filename already contains a period, in which case the truncated filename
 may not be valid for the DOS side and the file will not be transferred.
 
  
 
      This first release of the program seems to run without many problems,
 but if you experience any, please let me know by way of the PANORAMA BBS,
 or the MINDLINK BBS. If the program SEEMS to transfer the files too
 quickly, but actually doesn't transfer at all, then the AREAD and AWRITE
 commands are not in the current directory with TRANSFER. TRANSFER uses
 these two commands and is not meant as a replacement for them, but you may
 find using only this one program more convenient.
 
                                                   Wayde Police
                                                   July 1, 1988