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Getting files on/off A/UX in QEMU

TweedyF

Well-known member
I have A/UX 3.1.1 up and running in QEMU, but as it stands I seem to have no way to get files on or off of the unix partition:
  • The FTP client that comes installed requires active mode, which doesn't work with my router
  • Any binary/executable files loaded via a Macintosh disk don't work when transferred to the Unix side
  • No success getting QEMU to port forward so that I might be able to FTP in to the machine, using e.g.:
    Code:
    -nic user,hostfwd=tcp::4421-:21
Any ideas? Am I missing something obvious?

Basically, I'd like to get a version of wget onto the machine so that I can begin updating some of the core programs.
 

TweedyF

Well-known member
You're right - the disk format wasn't the problem, and transferring them over from an HFS volume was part of the solution.

Turns out I just needed to strip the resource fork from the files after moving them into the A/UX file system. For anyone reading this in the future, there's a built-in utility to accomplish this:

Code:
fcnvt -v -d <input.file> <output.file>
 
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