IBM Professional Series - Transferring Personal Computer DOS and VMPC; Files; Copying a Text File from Personal Computer

Transferring Personal Computer DOS
and VMjPC Files
Files created on the Personal Computer and those created on
a
VM/PC system are in different formats. VM/PC provides
commands to convert these files from one format to the
other so they can be used
on either system. These commands
are
IMPORT and EXPORT.
You can transfer data and programs between the IBM
Personal Computer environment and the
VM/PC
environment with the IMPORT and EXPORT commands.
IMPORT transfers from Personal Computer DOS to
VM/PC, and EXPORT transfers from VM/PC to Personal
Computer
DOS.
As with other VM/PC commands, IMPORT and EXPORT
have many options that offer you many ways to use the
system. The following sections show you how to use these
commands and options to move a typical text file and a
program from one environment to the other. (For our
purposes, a text file
is one that contains alphanumeric data.)
For more information see "IMPORT" on page 7-94 and
"EXPORT" on page 7-76.
Copying a Text File from Personal Computer
DOS to VMjPC (IMPORT)
To transfer a Personal Computer text file (named sample.fil
on your C disk) to your
VM/PC (as sample file on your A
disk), you could use the following options
on the IMPORT
command:
import c:sample.fil sample file a (ascii eol
t
Lt eol means use
end-of-line
characters to define
lines
ascii means convert the
fi Ie's format to EBCDIC
from ASC II
this is file's identifier on VM/PC
Personal Computer filespec for the file
import says copy a Personal Computer DOS file to VM/PC
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