Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help.  I have and old bog-standard QL (i.e. no floppy 
drives), and I'd like transfer all my 
files from microdrive cartridges to a PC so I can use them on an emulator.

I have a serial cable and can get the machines talking to each other.  I'm 
doing the following, on the QL

copy_n mdv1_filename to ser1hz

on the PC

copy com1 filename

This appears to work ok for text-based files, which I can then open up and load 
in Q-Emulator.  However, for binary 
files I am having problems in that the transfer never completes - the PC 
reports the transfer as complete,  but the 
QL is still sending, and I end up with only part of the file on the PC.  I 
think what's going on is that there's a 
combination of characters within the file body that is being interpreted as an 
EOF (ctrl-z).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how best I can get my files copied 
across.  I will also need to get some 
files from the PC to the QL (i.e. I haven't tried yet), are there any pitfalls 
or tips to getting that to work.

Many thanks for any help.

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