WALDI@DHDIHEP1.BITNET (07/13/87)
Date: 13 July 1987, 17:47:18 SET
From: Dr. Roland Waldi phone (6221) 564334 WALDI at DHDIHEP1
Inst. fuer Hochenergiephysik
Schroederstr. 90
D-6900 Heidelberg
To: INFO-ATA at SCORE.ST
Hello Atari-Netters,
there was some discussion on IBM---ST floppy transfer; here are
my experiences: I have an IBM PC connected via 7171 protocol
converter to an IBM mainframe. Only recently I have added a
3 1/2" external drive to the PC, and I'm downloading files
(text and UUEncoded) via KERMIT (MS-Kermit 2.29) to this drive.
I had no problems reading and UUdecoding these files at my
Atari! Furthermore, I can write new files on the floppy,
create new subdirectories ("folders"), and put files into them,
and read anything without any trouble on the IBM-PC, as well as
transferring it via KERMIT to the mainframe (Carets ^ are
translated to EBCDIC "not", as usually in BITNET, but not to tilde).
I can NOT read ATARI-formatted floppies on the PC,
even with an MS-DOS boot sector created by PCFORMAT.
But, as I mentioned, I can create new folders at the ATARI
on a PC formatted disk.
(someone here reported about problems with that, who was he/she?)
Here is a test, how ATARI characters transfer (I have omitted
CR, LF, ESC, SUB, DEL), in ASCII sequence:
0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF
................................
R.0.1
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?.2.3
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_.4.5
`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ .6.7
R.8.9
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?.A.B
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_.C.D
`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~.E.F
Looks already messy on the IBM4341! Now my second point:
Is anybody on the net interested in a PD program with the
following features?
- print program sources and other text files (ASCII + Atari characters)
on a NEC (P6/P7) or compatible printer, connected to the parallel port
- set P6/P7 printer parameters
- variable character widths: 10, 12, 15 or 20 characters/inch
- line spacing: 4, 5, 6, 6.7, 8 or 10 lines/inch
- optional bottom line: with text and page number
- optional mode: Draft or NLQ
- optional page eject control character in column one
(e.g. for FORTRAN ANSI files)
- variable left margin
- variable line width to be used
- variable number of lines per page
- selectable range of lines from the file to be printed
I could also send the source (megamax C), if someone wants to
change it for other brand of printers.
But since there are much similar programs around i hesitate
posting it to the net.
There are more PD programs to come, as soon as I got around and
wrote some short doc.
Roland Waldi