kayvan@satyr.UUCP (Kayvan Sylvan) (04/08/91)
Does anyone know the specs for communicating with the Sharp Wizard? I have both the OZ7000 and the OZ8200 models of the wizard. I have a hypercard stack on the Mac (the Wizard Mac Link from Sharp) that deals with the OZ7000 but it would need to be extended to deal with the OZ8000/OZ8200 additions (Outliner, Business Cards, etc.). My intent is to create a simple and fast program to download and upload the data (I have no need for the hypercard features) to and from the Mac. I could then do backups of the Wizards on the Mac in about a tenth of the time it takes for HyperCard to do its work (the ``Hyper'' is not for speed). Can anyone help with this? By the way, the OZ8200 is a quantum leap improvement in the Wizards!!! ---Kayvan -- | Kayvan Sylvan Consulting/Training 879 Lewiston Drive | | Sylvan Associates Unix and Mac Programming San Jose, CA 95136 | | "Think Globally, GNU tools, GUIs, Databases (408) 978-1407 | | Act Locally." Unify User's Group Librarian apple!satyr!kayvan |
mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) (04/09/91)
In article <KAYVAN.91Apr7144458@satyr.UUCP>, kayvan@satyr.UUCP (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: >Does anyone know the specs for communicating with the Sharp Wizard? > >I have both the OZ7000 and the OZ8200 models of the wizard. I have a >hypercard stack on the Mac (the Wizard Mac Link from Sharp) that deals >with the OZ7000 but it would need to be extended to deal with the >OZ8000/OZ8200 additions (Outliner, Business Cards, etc.). > >My intent is to create a simple and fast program to download and >upload the data (I have no need for the hypercard features) to and >from the Mac. I could then do backups of the Wizards on the Mac in >about a tenth of the time it takes for HyperCard to do its work (the >``Hyper'' is not for speed). > >Can anyone help with this? > >By the way, the OZ8200 is a quantum leap improvement in the Wizards!!! > > I obtained the specifications from Sharp. I can't find my notes from the call, but I had to call about 3 times to different numbers before getting the right number. I have the documentation at home, so if you can't find the number, I'll try to post what I can tommorrow. I have been playing with writing some code to interface to the 8200 as well, but I have been thinking of doing it in C++/MacApp. Anyone who is interested in such a project, let me know. I have a lot of experience with hardware interfacing, so I could write a set of objects that would take care of initializing themselves from disk or the link, and saving themselves, and then others could write some methods for editing. I would probably use the iostreams approach, so it would be fairly easy to extend. /sig Jeff E Mandel MD MS Asst. Professor of Anesthesiology Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, LA mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu
fozzy@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Andrew Steele) (04/11/91)
mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes: >In article <KAYVAN.91Apr7144458@satyr.UUCP>, kayvan@satyr.UUCP (Kayvan Sylvan) writes: >>Does anyone know the specs for communicating with the Sharp Wizard? >> >I obtained the specifications from Sharp. I can't find my notes from the call, >but I had to call about 3 times to different numbers before getting the right >number. I have the documentation at home, so if you can't find the number, I'll >try to post what I can tommorrow. Sometime ago someone posted to comp.sys.handhelds a program for connecting a Sharp Wizard to a Unix box. I saved this so if that would be of help let me know and I'll post it. I would think it would just be a matter of modifying the low level serial IO stuff to get it to work (and maybe adding code for other interface cards). Apart from this, any info on the specs of the interface I'd be greatly interested in. Especially things that will allow you to do non-standard things with it.