zlraa@iceman.jcu.oz (Ross Alford) (07/31/90)
I am seriously considering buying an Atari Portfolio, but have one unresolved question: If I buy the RS232 adapter for it, how do I *initially* get a program into it that will do file transfers through the RS232. No software appears to come with it, the Portfolio has no built-in programming language, so how do you bootstrap a serial communication program into it in the first place. Note: no-one I know nearby has one of the parallel file transfer packages, so I can't count on borrowing one of those. On the same subject, is the Portfolio's serial port compatible with PC/XT? Will programs that directly manipulate the hardaware work? Failing that, is the BIOS compatible enough that PC RS232 BIOS calls function? Anyone want to comment on the BIOS-level compatibility of the Portfolio in general? Ross Alford zlraa@iceman.jcu.oz zlraa@marlin.jcu.au.edu
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (08/01/90)
In article <871@iceman.jcu.oz> zlraa@iceman.jcu.oz (Ross Alford) writes:
I am seriously considering buying an Atari Portfolio, but have one
unresolved question: If I buy the RS232 adapter for it, how do
I *initially* get a program into it that will do file transfers
through the RS232.
There are some amazingly tiny bootstrap programs for ms-dos kermit,
i'd see about keying in one of those. ftp from watsun.cc.columbia.edu.
--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>werner@vax1.informatik.fh-regensburg.dbp.de (Ralf Werner) (08/01/90)
Someone wanted to know how to download programs into the PORTFOLIO. This is done with the PARALLEL interface; there's software built into the FOLIO (and on disks that come with the parallel adapter) that makes a bitwise transfer (I guess they use BSY and STROBE on the centronics port) between FOLIO and PC. Its rather slow, but it works fine! BTW: has anybody seen ROM revisions > 1.072 ??? Ralf
hburford@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Harry Burford) (08/02/90)
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >In article <871@iceman.jcu.oz> zlraa@iceman.jcu.oz (Ross Alford) writes: > I am seriously considering buying an Atari Portfolio, but have one > unresolved question: If I buy the RS232 adapter for it, how do > I *initially* get a program into it that will do file transfers > through the RS232. >There are some amazingly tiny bootstrap programs for ms-dos kermit, >i'd see about keying in one of those. ftp from watsun.cc.columbia.edu. >--Ed >Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu> Currently Atari is including the parallel interface with their port. this is aparently a bi-directional interface and you will not need the serial to communicate with the PC. As far a comm. goes, there is a comm program as well as spread sheet, word processing, scheduler, + others built into the stock port. I don't own one yet so I'm not sure how well they work. (when I said PC above, I meant a host PC that the port would comm. with) -- Harry Burford - NCR Peripheral Products Division, Printer Products PHONE:316-636-8016 TELEX:417-465 FAX:316-636-8889 CALL:KA0TTY SLOWNET:3718 N. Rock Road, Wichita KS C-$erve:76226,2760 Cherokee N7476R SS: 9.5 Harry.Burford@Wichita.NCR.COM
stan@hprpcd.HP.COM (Stan Witherspoon) (08/03/90)
For all Portfolio users,
Here is a shell archive of Xterm2, a small terminal emulator that supports
Xmodem for the Portfolio. I have received several requests for it, and since
it is so small, I figured I would post it. Enjoy.
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# This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line,
# then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file".
#
# Wrapped by Stan Witherspoon <stan@hprstw> on Mon Jul 16 15:41:00 1990
#
# This archive contains:
# xterm2.com
#
# Modification/access file times will be preserved.
# User/group owner information will be preserved.
# Error checking via wc(1) will be performed.
# Error checking via sum(1) will be performed.
LANG=""; export LANG
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH; export PATH
if sum -r </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
then
sumopt='-r'
else
sumopt=''
fi
rm -f /tmp/uud$$
(echo "begin 777 /tmp/uud$$\n \nend" | uudecode) >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ -f /tmp/uud$$ ]
then
rm -f /tmp/uud$$
unpacker=uudecode
else
echo Compiling unpacker for non-ascii files
pwd=`pwd`; cd /tmp
cat >unpack$$.c <<-'EOF'
#include <stdio.h>
#define DEC(c) (((c) - ' ') & 077)
main()
{
int n;
char dest[128], a,b,c,d;
scanf("begin %o ", &n);
gets(dest);
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exit(1);
}
while ((n=getchar()) != EOF && (n=DEC(n))!=0) {
while (n>0) {
a = DEC(getchar());
b = DEC(getchar());
c = DEC(getchar());
d = DEC(getchar());
if (n-- > 0) putchar(a << 2 | b >> 4);
if (n-- > 0) putchar(b << 4 | c >> 2);
if (n-- > 0) putchar(c << 6 | d);
}
n=getchar();
}
exit(0);
}
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cc -o unpack$$ unpack$$.c
rm unpack$$.c
cd $pwd
unpacker=/tmp/unpack$$
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set `sum $sumopt <xterm2.com`; if test $1 -ne 40685
then
echo ERROR: xterm2.com checksum is $1 should be 40685
fi
set `wc -lwc <xterm2.com`
if test $1$2$3 != 701542944
then
echo ERROR: wc results of xterm2.com are $* should be 70 154 2944
fi
touch -m 0716151290 xterm2.com
touch -a 0716151190 xterm2.com
chmod 644 xterm2.com
chgrp users xterm2.com
chown stan xterm2.com
rm -f /tmp/unpack$$
exit 0SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) (08/07/90)
In article <871@iceman.jcu.oz>, zlraa@iceman.jcu.oz (Ross Alford) writes: > If I buy the RS232 adapter for it, how do > I *initially* get a program into it that will do file transfers > through the RS232. Very good question. > > On the same subject, is the Portfolio's serial port compatible with > PC/XT? Will programs that directly manipulate the hardaware work? > Failing that, is the BIOS compatible enough that PC RS232 BIOS calls > function? Anyone want to comment on the BIOS-level compatibility > of the Portfolio in general? Everything that I've tried at a BIOS level has worked. Nothing that I've tried at a hardware level has. The RS232 port is definitely BIOS compatible. I've played with it and done some playing with the screen (I wrote a small terminal emulator using BIOS calls for both the screen and the serial port). Before the requests start pouring in, it is not fit for external consumption. No, I won't post it. -- =============================================================================== Roger Ivie 35 S 300 W Logan, Ut. 84321 (801) 752-8633 ===============================================================================