will old filepro work on XP computer

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006, Bob Stockler wrote:
>Steve Bergman wrote (on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:56:47PM -0500):
>
>| On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 17:40 -0400, Bob Stockler wrote:
>| 
>| > Data ain't no problem at all.  Microsoft Services for UNIX,
>| > UWIN, UnixUtilities, and others (all free) can all extract
>| > compressed tar archives (and I think WinZip can also).
>| > 
>| > The problem most likely would be using sneaker-net to get
>| > to get the data from point A to point B.
>| > 
>| 
>| Does Microsoft Services for UNIX include UUCP? ;-)
>
>None of the UNIX on Windows sets that I have include uucp.

There is an open source program, uupc, that does.  It's been
almost ten years since I looked at, but it worked well (as well
as anything does on the Microsoft virus :-).

IMHO though, kermit with sliding windows is a far better method
of doing occassional file transfers such as FP data.

Bill
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