CBWP8008@IRUCCVAX.BITNET (07/08/87)
I don't use cpm much but i have a small problem with a machine here i'm trying to get software and data off of. the software is ok (ascii transfer) but i'm having to uuencode all the data files to transfer them. The machine is a british made systime 500. which is cpm86 based with cpm 2.2. It uses 4 4mb removable cartridges and 5 rs232 ports at the back and can support up to 4 users. I thought that rainbow(also cpm86) kermit might work on this so i hexified it and transfered to the systime and it worked... sort of. The program ran but the data didn't seem to be coming out of any of the ports in the back of the machine. what i want to know is if there is any way of defining a communications channel in cpm (as you can see i know very little about it) or is kermit hardware specific for the rainbow, which has a coms port. If it is is there any ready written communications software written in ms-basic ( the only language around on the systime) which i could port on to it. Uuencoding isn't so bad for the smaller files (<250K) but there are several here which exceed 2.5mb so i could be here for YEARS transfering them Thanx Ian Murphy (^v^)
mlinar@poisson.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar) (07/12/87)
In article <KPETERSEN.12317278993.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA> CBWP8008@IRUCCVAX.BITNET writes: > .... >the back and can support up to 4 users. I thought that rainbow(also >cpm86) kermit might work on this so i hexified it and transfered to >the systime and it worked... sort of. The program ran but the data >didn't seem to be coming out of any of the ports in the back of the >machine. > >what i want to know is if there is any way of defining a >communications channel in cpm (as you can see i know very little about Sorry, Ian, but CP/M lacked a REAL generic interface to a serial port. All modem software for CP/M is hardwired for a given port at some point or another; nearly all BIOSes have no provision for it. The rainbow software is operating on another port. There may be hope, however, since many modem programs (early ones) have a few bytes you can "ding" to change the port # to the proper value. You WILL need SOME information about that machine (I never heard of it) as well as the program to figure out where to ding it. (Or, if you know the port information, any PD modem program could have an overlay written for it and that would also solve your problem.) Otherwise, a good CP/M hacker could find it for you, but it would take a little time... Good luck. -Mitch