brad@Dca-Eur.ARPA (01/29/85)
Date: 29 Jan 1985 08:43:14 Z Comment: Forwarded message(s): ----------------------------------------------------- To: rmeier @ su-star From: brad @ dca-eur Subject: ALS CP/M Card Date: 29 Jan 1985 07:28:35 Z cc: brad @ dca-eur, dbrothers @ ddn1 Text: Bob, Thanks for your reply. Last night I had a major breakthru by getting data to my printer. I was able to do this by putting my serial card in slot #2 and using PIP to send a file to AUX: (slot 2) I have WordStar and would like to use the print command in WordStar, but the next best thing would be to send the output of WordStar to disk and then use pip to print it out. ALS told me in a letter that with release 3.01B2 and later they have a utility called FLIP to reassign Apple slots 1, 2, and 3 similar to the way DEVICE.COM works. I have release 3.01B1 and don't have the the FLIP utility. ALS says they will mail it to me. So far I have been unable to get DEVICE.COM to work (maybe I'm using the wrong format for the command or something else simple). Since ALS has come up with the FLIP utility, perhaps that's because DEVICE doesn't work with the Apple. Oh, well, my main concern was to get data to the serial printer and I overcame that last night using PIP. It still would be nice to be able to turn on the printer using ctrl-p, hopefully ALS FLIP will do that by allowing me to redefine slot #2 as LST: instead of AUX: . I still haven't discovered why CP/M won't boot with the serial card in slot #1. I thought it may be because the serial card occupies some of the same ROM space as the CP/M card. I know there is a problem where the MicroModem will not work in slot 2 if the Serial Card is in slot #1. Maybe you can shed some light on that since you have serial cards in both slot 1 and 2. I have ordered the ALS Programmers' Toolkit which includes two disks containing both the source for ALS' BIOS and Digital Research skeletal BIOS. With that I should be in pretty good shape to figure things out. Over here in Stuttgart, Germany. I am really isolated from the "real world". I don't know anyone else here that has the ALS CP/M card here. Thanks again. Brad -------------END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE(S)-------------