oster@lapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (09/07/86)
I recently got a chance to borrow a Radio Shack model 100, the portable with the 40x16 character display. It has a built in program called Telcom for downloading and uploading text files. It has a plug on the back labelled "RS232" that is compatible with the ImageWriter I cable. Its internal text file format uses <cr> as a paragraph separator, just like a Mac TEXT file. But: 1.) when you send a file out the RS232 port it inserts extra carriage returns, because it assumes that the receipient can't do its own linebreaking. 2.) Its foreign character set is different from the Mac's. I've written a program that can move files to the Model 100, and retrieve files from the Model 100. It uses a heuristic to try to remove the extra carriage returns, and it does a decent job of mapping between the two foreign character sets. If there is any interest in "Radio Upload", I'll post it to the net. --- David Phillip Oster -- "We live in a Global Village." Arpa: oster@lapis.berkeley.edu -- Uucp: ucbvax!ucblapis!oster -- "You are Number Six."