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Getting files on/off A/UX in QEMU
Posted by: TweedyF on 2022-06-30 11:06:52
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.: 
    -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.
Posted by: cheesestraws on 2022-06-30 11:09:18
Take it via an HFS-formatted hard disc image?
Posted by: TweedyF on 2022-06-30 14:01:49
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:

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