OmniGo file transfer

Marcus Groeber (100712.270@CompuServe.COM)
22 Oct 96 11:19:48 EDT

Hi Wayne,

> real simple communications with the Omnigo (no handshaking, no anything).
> If I send the EX command, then the Omnigo closes Transfer and sends me EX
> back (as it should). However, if I send any other command, I get nothing -
> zip, zlich, nothing. Someone out there must be communicating with the

I think what you have to do is send something like EBon (EchoBack on) in the
beginning to make it send responses... you can try this out with a terminal
emulation, except of course for the file transfer itself, which is a bit too
complex to do "by hand", even though the protocol is fairly primitive... :-)

I have some source code for a Unix / OS/2 file transfer program for the OmniGo
(written mostly by Asher Hoskins) on my Web page

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mgroeber

which is quite a "bare-bones" implementation of the most important commands and
protocols. The protocol seems to have occasional problems with error recovery,
but it does work most of the time... :-)

ciao marcus