CCCRAIG@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU ("Craig Pepmiller") (01/03/89)
My father works on a Kaypro II and a Kaypro 10. He is trying to redirect output form the serial port (printer) to a disk file. Is there a CPM instruction to do this? Maybe a small utility?
lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) (01/04/89)
From article <8901031516.AA28528@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by CCCRAIG@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU ("Craig Pepmiller"):
" My father works on a Kaypro II and a Kaypro 10. He is trying to redirect
" output form the serial port (printer) to a disk file. Is there a CPM
" instruction to do this? Maybe a small utility?
PIPwilker@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Clarence W. Wilkerson Jr.) (01/04/89)
I assume the question was to redirect output from an existing application program for which no source code was available, to a disk file. If you wanted to capture incomming stuff off the serial ports, KERMIT might be more convenient than PIP. CP/M does not treat IO devices the same as files like UNIX, so one can not easily ( with out hacking your bios, ) capture IO into files. I can imagine a small utility sitting under CCP capturing calls to RDR or whatever, and writting a log file. However, many CP/M programs using serial ports go directly to the hardware, so there is still a problem. Can you be more specific as to the capability needed?
dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) (01/04/89)
From article <2924@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, by lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee): > From article <8901031516.AA28528@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by CCCRAIG@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU ("Craig Pepmiller"): > " My father works on a Kaypro II and a Kaypro 10. He is trying to redirect > " output form the serial port (printer) to a disk file. Is there a CPM > " instruction to do this? Maybe a small utility? > > PIP Not quite. I think what is required is PIP FILE.XYZ = LST: I have a TSR that catches console output, and it should be trivial to modify it to catch LST: output. -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+
bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) (01/05/89)
>" My father works on a Kaypro II and a Kaypro 10. He is trying to redirect >" output form the serial port (printer) to a disk file. Is there a CPM >" instruction to do this? Maybe a small utility? > >PIP Actually, no. What is needed is some form of i/o capture utility. I believe there is one somewher in the CP/MUG archives that could be modified to do this (called, I believe, IOCAP), but I don't know of a utility to do this. PIP will copy a file to the printer port, but it won't divert printer output. -- William Swan ..!tikal.Teltone.COM!sigma!bill
lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) (01/05/89)
From article <1996@sigma.UUCP>, by bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan): " >" My father works on a Kaypro II and a Kaypro 10. He is trying to redirect " >" output form the serial port (printer) to a disk file. Is there a CPM " >" instruction to do this? Maybe a small utility? " > " >PIP " " Actually, no. What is needed is some form of i/o capture utility. I believe I was a little terse -- I couldn't remember anything more than that I had used PIP for this on the Kaypro II. Now it's coming back to me. A terminal program with a capture-text-in-file mode should work. But you can use PIP if you're desperate. You have to modify PIP with DDT by inserting a few assembler instructions to read the port. This is a supported hack -- there's a little room left in PIP for this very purpose. As I recall, there is ascii text in the PIP code saying where the right place is. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu