<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Uploading files from a serial console</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Remote Serial Console HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Modems and overseas telecommunications requirements" HREF="bugs-international.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Disable logging to console" HREF="upload-logging.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="APPENDIX" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Remote Serial Console HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="bugs-international.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="upload-logging.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="APPENDIX" ><H1 ><A NAME="UPLOAD" ></A >Appendix B. Uploading files from a serial console</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >B.1. <A HREF="upload-logging.html" >Disable logging to console</A ></DT ><DT >B.2. <A HREF="upload-cat.html" ><SPAN CLASS="ACRONYM" >ASCII</SPAN > upload and <B CLASS="COMMAND" >cat</B ></A ></DT ><DT >B.3. <A HREF="upload-zmodem.html" ><SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Xmodem</SPAN >, <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Ymodem</SPAN > and <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Zmodem</SPAN ></A ></DT ><DT >B.4. <A HREF="upload-kermit.html" ><SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Kermit</SPAN ></A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >There are many scenarios where the machine is dead in the water and you need to upload a file to correct that. In many of these scenarios the only way to upload the file is via the serial port being used as the console.</P ><P >Moving files about over serial links has a long history in microcomputing and this section goes back in time to uncover the tools commonly used in the pre-Internet age of the Bulletin Board System.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="bugs-international.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="upload-logging.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Modems and overseas telecommunications requirements</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Disable logging to console</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >