User`s guide

Finally, you will select the file or files to send or "Open".
At the start, some experimentation is likely to be involved in getting your
computer-to-computer transfers going. For example, you may find that it matters
which end you start first. (When using ZLink on the Apple II and doing an X-
modem transfer, start the Send side first, then the Receive side.) If your setup
works best starting Receive first, you may find that one telecom program or the
other does not give you enough time to start Send-- i.e. it keeps "timing out".
The fix is to change the program'
s "Time Out", "Inactivity Delay", etc. setting.
Note: Some telecom programs may expect an end-of-send signal which the sending
program does not supply. Pressing CTRL-X or RETURN on the Apple II or ESC on
the PC often seems to work okay for terminating the Send.
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From: Jeff Blakeney
You don't need to manually tell Spectrum or other modern telecom programs
to receive a file each time you do a Z-modem transfer. Just make sure that you
have Auto Receives turned ON. In Spectrum the setting is in the Settings/File
Transfer/Receive Options... dialog.
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From: Rubywand
005- How do I NULL-modem Text files without getting
garbage?
The main problem in A2-PC Text file transfers is that Text files created by
the PC use a CR _and_ an LF to end a line whereas Apple II-created Text files
use just a CR. So; PC files show up on Apple II displays with annoying "#" or
inverse "?" symbols; and, Apple II files show up on PC displays with long, un-
terminated lines interspersed with block symbols.
For PC-to-A2 Text file transfers, Z-modem, X-modem, etc. usually work fine
if you have some way to deal with the extra Control characters, mainly line
feeds. On the GS, Appleworks 5 does a good job of automatically cleaning out
such garbage; and, Text editors like ShadowWrite and CoolWriter have options to
quickly strip out offending line-feed Control characters. Some telecom programs,
including Spectrum, have Text editors which can strip out Control characters and
perform other manipulations to clea
n up a file.
An alternative is to do a plain ASCII Text transfer. (The PC telecom
program should be told _not_ to add line feeds or "line enders".) Depending
upon your A2 telecom program, the result may be saved from your Capture Buffer,
captured directly to an on-disk Text file, or selected and saved from the
Scrollback buffer.
Similarly, for A2-to-PC Text transfers, you can use Z-modem or some other
block transfer protocol if you have a PC utility which can convert Apple II text
to text PC's like. For example, one way to send several Text files is to put