leff@smu.UUCP (11/14/83)
#N:smu:15000001:000:961 smu!leff Nov 12 19:08:00 1983 Some technical questions on the TI - PC 1) does anybody know of a utility, mechanism, consultant or person who will recover at TIPC Winchester disk that lost its VTOC. Somebody lost a VTOC from some weird EASYWRITER bug here and they have a lot of programs and files on it and of course they don't have any backup. 2) does anybody know how to get documentation on how to program the graphics board from MS-FORTRAN or MS-PASSCAL. (We have three plane graphics boards here.) 3) is there any documentation available on the modem card. We have ttycom but we wish to be able to access it from our programs. 4) THe installation guide for the serial card says the thing supports SDLC type protocols. There is no documentation on this feature. Does anybody know anything about it. We have installed about 88 TI PC's here at SMU (some of which were bought for personal use in a mass deal.) These are outstanding questions which we have not yet found an answer.
jph@whuxle.UUCP (11/17/83)
#R:smu:15000001:whuxle:22700004:000:373 whuxle!jph Nov 15 13:55:00 1983 In answer to your question 3 on the modem, you can access the modem from your program if you use the Async Comm Support software from IBM. The driver routine (RS232INT.BAS or RS232INT.EXE) is an interrupt driven routine with 2000 bytes of receive buffer. I have routines that will interface this with PASCAL and this works out as a very nice way of using the interface.