Re: YAPP server pgm - Packet File Transfer

[<w9ya@arrl.net>]

Hey Bill and the gang;

In the bad ol' days. i.e. in the first years after AX.25 made it's
appearance, I had a file server on the "duplex (ham 2m es 440) packet
network" in LA. We used a variation on the binary to ascii-text conversion
to prefilter for transfers. Worked pretty well too.

Vy 73;

Bob
w9ya


>
>> I am not sure if these programs I wrote are what the
>> original requestor wanted or not.
>
> that was me...
>
>> Here is what they do:
>> They sit on an unattended AX.25 capable file server, and users connect
>> to them and download files.  If I had the upload half of
>> the program finished, they could upload files to the server also.
>
> It sounds like you are very close with the core functionality of
> what I'm looking for.
>
> My objective here is to transfer a binary file between two systems with
> packet radio.
>
> The file will be highly compressed standard Email and NNTP posts - the
> old UUCP way of doing things.  I believe the existing tools allow
> setting the size of the outgoing file bundle so we'll be able to limit
> it to something like 50K which would probably be fine for most of the
> exchanges.
>
> I'd like the transfer to be very fast, aggressive and efficient.  To get
>  the job done as quick as possible and get out of the way.   No doubt
> that FTP/TCP would be better for larger and more robust transfers but in
>  this case the overhead of TCP is unacceptable.
>
> I'm attempting to keep this scheme as standard as possible by minimizing
>  the value added tools.   A single specialized "ax25" file copy program
> that works through the AX25 tools would be a good solution.
>
> While this is basically Linux, I'm considering the issues and
> possibilities of running this on the other OS's.  (UUPC anyone?)
>
> There's sure been some interesting info presented here in the past
> couple days...
>
> 73,
> Bill - WA7NWP
>
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