I use Amiga Explorer from CloanTo on the Amiga for transferring files to/from my Linux PC.
Although it's fairly easy in Linux to transfer serial data to the Amiga using transwarp and similar, using Amiga Explorer makes things easier.
Amiga Explorer has a PC client for Windows but nothing for Linux. The Explorer program partially works under Wine but seems flaky and crashes doing directory listings on my standard Fedora 25 machine.
I've created a script that can be used as a Linux client for communicating with the Explorer program running on the Amiga. The script supports both RS232 serial and LAN connections. This is a command line tool, there's no graphical user interface.
I've uploaded the code to GitHub here:
https://github.com/marksmanuk/lxamiga
I have uploaded a bootable Amiga Explorer ADF disk image Amiga Explorer 6.0. Transfer and write it to disk from Linux using transwarp as mentioned in my earlier post. (edit: new version that boots on A500 onwards)
Example Usage (Serial):
lxamiga -l
lxamiga -d df0:
lxamiga -s myfile.txt df0:Empty/myfile.txt
lxamiga -r df0:Empty/remote.txt -w local.txt
lxamiga -r :df0:disk.adf -w image.adf
lxamiga -s image.adf :df0:empty.adf/image.adf
lxamiga -u df0:Empty/deleteme.txt
lxamiga -f df1: Empty
It's the same commands to use the LAN connection, just use the -t switch first:
lxamiga -t -l
1. List available devices/volumes:
$ lxamiga.pl -l
Connected to host successfully at 19200
Read 996/996 Bytes 100.0%
14 entries:
DH0:WORKBENCH 10234 kB 10710 kB 18/01/1996 20:18 RWED
DH1:SIMULATOR 25628 kB 51510 kB 18/01/1996 20:35 RWED
DH2:CREATE 14187 kB 95795 kB 18/01/1996 20:49 RWED
DH3:DOCUMENTS 25220 kB 94095 kB 18/01/1996 21:05 RWED
RAM:Ram Disk 605 kB 611 kB 25/03/2017 15:47 RWED
DF0:Explorer 174 kB 880 kB 16/02/1993 15:40 RWED
DF1:Blank 2 kB 880 kB 25/03/2017 09:26 RWED
:R:Kick.rom 0 kB 512 kB 15/07/1993 00:00 R AMIGA ROM Operating
:DF0:Explorer.adf 0 kB 880 kB 16/02/1993 15:40 R
:DF1:Blank.adf 0 kB 880 kB 25/03/2017 09:26 RW
:DH0:WORKBENCH.hdf 0 kB 10710 kB 18/01/1996 20:18 RW SEC:34 SUR:5 RES:2
:DH1:SIMULATOR.hdf 0 kB 51510 kB 18/01/1996 20:35 RW SEC:34 SUR:5 RES:2
:DH2:CREATE.hdf 0 kB 95795 kB 18/01/1996 20:49 RW SEC:34 SUR:5 RES:2
:DH3:DOCUMENTS.hdf 0 kB 94095 kB 18/01/1996 21:05 RW SEC:34 SUR:5 RES:2
2. Format disk:
$ lxamiga.pl -f df1: Blank
Connected to host successfully at 19200
Formatting df1: Blank
Formatting 100.0%
Finished.
3. Send ADF image to disk:
$ lxamiga.pl -s DragonsMegaDemoI.adf :DF1:Blank.adf
Connected to host successfully at 19200
Uploading DragonsMegaDemoI.adf to :DF1:Blank.adf
Sent 901120/901120 Bytes 100.0%
4. Read disk to ADF image:
$ lxamiga.pl -r :DF0:Explorer.adf -w AExplorer.adf
Connected to host successfully at 19200
Read 901120/901120 Bytes 100.0%
901120 bytes saved to AExplorer.adf
5. Read a file from Amiga to local filesystem:
$ lxamiga.pl -r :R:Kick.rom -w kick.rom
Connected to host successfully at 19200
Read 524288/524288 Bytes 100.0%
524288 bytes saved to kick.rom
$ md5sum kick.rom
e40a5dfb3d017ba8779faba30cbd1c8e kick.rom (Kickstart 3.1)
6. Upload a file to the Amiga (over LAN):
$ lxamiga.pl -t -s ProTracker-3.15.lha RAM:
Connected to 192.168.1.200:356 successfully.
Uploading ProTracker-3.15.lha to RAM:/ProTracker-3.15.lha
Sent 97654/97654 Bytes 100.0%
$ lxamiga.pl -t -d RAM:
Connected to 192.168.1.200:356 successfully.
Read 168/168 Bytes 100.0%
4 entries:
Clipboards (dir) 28/10/2017 21:27 RWED
ENV (dir) 28/10/2017 21:28 RWED
T (dir) 28/10/2017 21:28 RWED
ProTracker-3.15.lha 97654 07/04/2017 18:45 RWED
I've only implemented the features useful to me. If there's interest I'm happy to add the remaining functionality from Explorer.
I originally wrote lxamiga for Linux about 10 years ago but lost the source. The earlier version supported both serial and network connections and had a separate graphical interface front end written in Perl/GTK.
EDIT: A kind reader had the source and sent me a copy, which to my surprise was written in C++, but it's horribly broken on 64 bit machines so I won't post it here.
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