Desaulniers.PA@XEROX.COM (04/30/86)
I recently purchased OmniView256KXL and installed it in my 800XL along
with the Newell 256KXL upgrade. Included with the purchase of Omniview
was a disk that contained the software for Omniwriter, the 80 column
word processor. To my surprise, on the disk was a file called README.
Which I did. The file explained that their was yet another program on
the disk named Omniterm, a terminal program that will work with the
Omniview upgrade. The program has one condition before it can be used.
That condition is that you must have an RS232 handler to append to it to
make it work with an interface. (mine is an 850). Herein lies my
problem. I did find a file on a public domain disk called RS232.ARS,
which I assumed was a ML file to generate a R: handler for a serial
interface (ie the 850). The file was 2 sectors long. Well I appended
it to the Omniterm program as instructed but when it finished reading in
the MAC.SYS file (a separate file that needs to be read in by Omniterm
for the terminal parameters, I think) it gives a message of ....done and
then it generates an Error 130 (no such device).
Can anyone, particularly C. David Young, tell me what I am doing wrong,
what the program really needs, and/or where I can find an RS232 Handler
to make Omniterm work.
Thanks,
Peter Desaulniers
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bruce@ektools.UUCP (Bruce D. Nelson ) (05/02/86)
In article <860429-142334-1297@Xerox> Desaulniers.PA@XEROX.COM writes: >...... The program has one condition before it can be used. >That condition is that you must have an RS232 handler to append to it to >make it work with an interface. (mine is an 850). Herein lies my >problem ....... The RS232 handler for an 850 resides in the AUTORUN.SYS file which is on an ORIGINAL DOS 2.0 release disk. It is also in RS232.COM of a DOS-XL disk. Sometimes you have to turn the 850 off and on before rebooting the Atari CPU before the 850 handler will self-load. Bruce Nelson {...}!rochester!kodak!ektools!bruce C-Serve: 70175,672 Delphi: BRUCENELSON BBS: (716)334-8232 SUNDAYS ONLY 9am to 9pm EDT
rb@mtuxn.UUCP (R.BOTWIN) (05/09/86)
In article <860429-142334-1297@Xerox> Desaulniers.PA@XEROX.COM writes: >I recently purchased OmniView256KXL and installed it in my 800XL along >... >That condition is that you must have an RS232 handler to append to it to >make it work with an interface. (mine is an 850). Herein lies my >... >interface (ie the 850). The file was 2 sectors long. Well I appended >it to the Omniterm program as instructed but when it finished reading in >... >Can anyone, particularly C. David Young, tell me what I am doing wrong, >what the program really needs, and/or where I can find an RS232 Handler >to make Omniterm work. [] You probably appended them backwards! You must make sure the RS232 loader executes FIRST, then your program. Also, you may have to run it as AUTORUN.SYS to prevent DUP clobbering it... Try the following: 1) copy RS232.xxx to AUTORUN.SYS 2) copy TERM.xxx to AUTORUN.SYS/A then re-boot....the AUTORUN.SYS will execute after DOS loads, first loading the RS232 handler, then executing the terminal program. Rob Botwin, N2FC .....{utah-cs|seismo|decvax}!harpo!eagle!houxm!mtuxo!mtuxn!rb ATT/IS Labs (201) 577-5016 (Cornet 8-270-5016) FJ 1B-130