Heathkit H8 and H89 floppy image transfer tool for Linux.
By George Farris - farrisg@gmsys.com

All feature requests and bug reports or pathces are welcome.

Quick install
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	chmod +x h8install.sh
	./h8install.sh


Installation of h8trans and / or h8clxfer

h8clxfer the command line version
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h8clxfer.py can be run from anywhere.  You just need to make sure the 
executable bit is set on it with the chmod command.

	chmod +x h8clxfer.py

You must of course have installed the pyserial package before hand.
Under Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix and virtually all other Debian based
distributions you just need to install like so:

	apt-get install pyserial

For Fedora and other RPM based distros if pyserial is not in your 
YUM repository you should be able to get pyserial from 
http://rpmfind.net.  Just search for it.

Once pyserial is installed run h8clxfer.py from your current 
location such as your home directory with a leading ./
	./h8clxfer.py -h

If you install it in /usr/local/bin you won't require the ./


h8trans - the GUI version
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h8trans must also have pyserial installed but it also requires
the pygtk libraries.  Under Debian this is the python-gtk2 package.

	apt-get install python-gtk2

Note that python-gtk2 is always installed if you are running a 
GNOME desktop.

h8trans requires a h8trans.glade file to be installed. h8trans.glade
is an xml file that contains the layout of the GUI.  By default 
h8trans.py looks for this file in /usr/local/lib/h8trans so it must
be copied there, as root of course.  You can run h8trans.py locally
by editing the h8trans.py file and changing the location of the 
GLADEFILE setting file under the "user modifiable settings" section. 

Now set h8trans.py executable with chmod +x h8trans.py and copy it to
/usr/local/bin or run at the current location with ./h8trans.py

I have included an h8trans.desktop file which if you copy it to 
/usr/share/applications the h8trans program should show up under
the Applications->Accessories menu on the GNOME desktop. Not sure
about those running KDE.

All this can be done by running the included h8install.sh bash script
as well. It will install both h8clxfer and h8trans to the default places.

Enjoy



