gerald@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (GERALD STEINBERG) (03/11/91)
What is the easiest way to upload text from the Model 100 to an XT? Thanks for the help.
cameronjames@snoc01.enet.dec.com (James Cameron) (03/12/91)
In article <1027@shum.huji.ac.il>, gerald@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (GERALD STEINBERG) writes: >What is the easiest way to upload text from the Model 100 to an XT? Configure the XT's communications port (COM1) for 75 baud. Set up the 100 for 75 baud, no flow control. Enter the command COPY COM1: FILE.TXT on the XT. Instruct the 100 to send the text. It will be very slow and you may lose some characters if the output file is on a floppy; but it's the easiest. There are many other solutions; most of which involve the use of communications programs on the XT, since the base system doesn't have any sensible flow control mechanism. (When I found out about that, I thought it was criminal!) I suggest you go looking for appropriate communications programs. An XMODEM type of program is available from the Tandy 100 archives. With that, and a corresponding XMODEM protocol program on the XT, file transfers should become easy. Check also the various incarnations of KERMIT; a version for the 100 is in the archives too. -- James Cameron Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia) P/L (cameronjames@snoc01.enet.dec.com)
yetsko@interlan.interlan.com (Mike Yetsko) (03/12/91)
If you have ANY kind of software to handle XON-XOFF protocol on your PC, you can crank WAY up past 75 baud. I've routinely used 9600 from my 100 to my Tandy 2000 and PC-AT when I run Telecommuter on the PC side. Mike Yetsko (The Tandy 2000 was past tense!)