[net.micro.apple] Wanted: Apple Pascal communications

ddc@druxv.UUCP (CusterDD) (03/15/85)

Wanted: how to access the communications port in UCSD Pascal.

I teach a Pascal course at the local community college and we need a
communcation program (written in Apple Pascal--UCSD) that will provide
file transfer from a UNIX system to the Apple.  Apple to UNIX would be nice but
not essential.

I have the source of a version of Kermit in C for UNIX.
Would be willing to translate to UCSD Apple Pascal but need to know
how to access the communications port from UCSD Pascal.
Anyone know, or know where I can find out?

Many thanks,
David Custer
druxv!ddc
(303) 538-3517

eve@ssc-bee.UUCP (Michael Eve) (03/20/85)

	If I understand your request, you want to know how to control
	a model from Apple Pascal.  There is a modem program written in
	Pascal in the book "All About Pascal" published by A.P.P.L.E., a
	national Apple users group.  I don't recall the details, but
	a good portion of the program is concerned with setting pointers
	to various hardware locations used for modem control.  An alternate
	approach would be to add a device driver to the BIOS.  The same
	things would still have to be done in the BIOS, but at least then
	it would be mostly transparent to the user program.

-- 
	Mike Eve     Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
	...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ssc-bee!eve

ir320@sdcc6.UUCP (ir320) (03/22/85)

There are also two other ways around this problem.  The first is to
just drop a serial com. card (from Apple) into slot #2.  The P-System
will recognize it and call it REMIN: and REMOUT:  Just read and write
the date from these units.  P-System takes care of the rest.

All About Pascal from Call Apple does indeed have a Micromodem II
compatable program for telecommunications, but then again, it's
nothing like P-Term -- ie the Z-term of the Pascal-World.  If you 
just want to talk to a serial card, why don't you just simply peek and
poke memory locations in varient records, or if you must, you  can use
assemly language and link it to the host.

John Antypas
UC San DIego

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