[Coco] Hello and does anyone remember DFT?

[Glen Hewlett]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your help.  I’m new to the CoCo scene and I’m afraid you lost me when you said "it is located at 31-055, 28-011 and 27-033.” Where do I find this archive?  Or is there a copy of this program archived somewhere that Guillaume Major is in charge of?  If so do you have an email for Guillaume Major?

I just found this advertisement in an Old Hot CoCo magazine (July 1983, page 47) of the program I’m searching for, it might help:

COLOR DIRECT FILE TRANSFER
Tape version $24.95 Disk version $29.95

Now a program for the Color Computer that allows you to download basic programs from
Bullet-80 systems. It will also send and receive prog rams from other Color Computers, Model
I's and Model I l l's.
Direct File Transfer (DFT) is a modem program which will handle the direct uploading and
downloading of machine language, word processor files, text files, and basic programs
directly to tape or disk with no conversion necessary. It is the program you must have to
download from any Bullet 80 system. DFT also has a chat mode, and has software controlled
half and/or full duplex. 

Thanks again,
Glen


> On Nov 11, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I have an archived copy of the DFT program, the original tape, and a copy of the documentation.  My records show this was produced by Big Systems Software.  I can easily locate both the tape and the documentation.  For the archived version of the program, please check with Guillaume Major.  It is located at 31-055, 28-011 and 27-033.
> 
> Hopefully this is the same program you are asking about.
> 
> --- Steve ---
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Glen Hewlett
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 2:46 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] Hello and does anyone remember DFT?
> 
>> 
>> Hi Allen,
>> 
>> Thanks for getting back to me.  The main reason I want the program is to play with it again a trip down memory lane copying some disk programs to tape and some tape programs to disks and to know this program isn't gone forever.  There are a handful of programs that I used all the time when I was young and this was one of them.  I found the rest but DFT I can’t find…
> 
> Oh, I bet I am thinking of a different DFT. The one I had was a modem file transfer program.
> 
> -- A
> Hi Allen,
> 
> No I think you’ve got the right program in mind.  DFT was also used for transferring programs over the modem from disk or tape.  To another person running DFT and saving to there disk or tape.  I hope someone has a copy of this program.  Like I said I would be sad to think it’s gone forever.  I guess it wasn’t as popular as I thought it was.  But I used it all the time.
> 
> Cheers,
> Glen
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