cstrahan · January 31, 2025 20:13 · Jun 17, 2013 · Jun 17, 2013
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Configure minicom with `minicom -s` and enter the “File transfer protocols”
 | Field   | Value          |
 | ------- | -------------- |
 | Name    | Binary         |
-| Program | bin-xfer -o %1 |
+| Program | bin-xfer -o %l |
 | Name    | Y              |
 | U/D     | U              |
 | FullScr | Y              |

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Configure minicom with `minicom -s` and enter the “File transfer protocols” section. You can add a section there called “binary”, point it at your file, and specify:
+
+
+| Field   | Value          |
+| ------- | -------------- |
+| Name    | Binary         |
+| Program | bin-xfer -o %1 |
+| Name    | Y              |
+| U/D     | U              |
+| FullScr | Y              |
+| IO-Red  | N              |
+| Multi   | N              |
diff --git a/bin-xfer.sh b/bin-xfer.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+INFILE=/dev/null
+OUTFILE=/dev/null
+
+function exists {
+  command -v $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+ case "$1" in
+ -i)
+ shift
+ INFILE="$1"
+ ;;
+ -o)
+ shift
+ OUTFILE="$1"
+ ;;
+ -h|--help)
+ echo "$0 -i infile -o outfile"
+ ;;
+ *)
+ INFILE="$1"
+ esac
+ shift
+done
+cat << EOF
+binary-xfer utility for minicom
+Sending file ${INFILE} to ${OUTFILE}
+EOF
+
+if (exists pv); then
+  pv --force -i 0.25 -B 128  ${INFILE}  2>&1 > ${OUTFILE}
+else
+  cat ${INFILE} > ${OUTFILE}
+fi
+
+cat << EOF
+ 
+File transfer complete
+EOF
+
+sleep 1