>I have written a utility to allow you to do file management/transfer
>from UNIX machines. The utility, xtoz (uniX TO Zoomer), is ftp like
>in look and feel. It uses the File Transfer feature (pccom) of the
>Zoomer since that protocol had a fairly decent description in the
>GEOS-SDK.
Splendid! I will get a great deal of use out of this utility - my home
box is a sparc, and there are no PCs where I work. I was thinking of
running zdos over WABI, but I have no idea whether that would have
worked.
>I wrote xtoz for SVR4 but have ported and tested it with AIX, SunOS,
>and DG/UX. I am contemplating ports to Solaris, HPUX, Linux and
>others.
If it runs under SVR4 you should have no trouble porting to solaris;
I think that the linux port should be high on your list too.
I have a couple of suggestions for features:
If you're going to keep it freeware, stick it under a GPL.
An automatic backup/restore facility would be very nice; most unix boxes
have got a gig or two of disk hanging off them these days, and
backing up the entire zoomer b: and c: contents into a directory on
the unix host can't be much more difficult than what you already have going.
Thanks again for what sounds like a marvellous utility.
Pete.