29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
2:48 a.m.
On 11/28/2005 at 6:07 PM Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
I was thinking that as well but you couldn't have any
of the special characters that are used to mark the various
fields. It would work if the files had ASCII text only but
many of the FxH values would do funny things( for your standard
controller chip, as I recall ) if the files had binary data.
Dwight
Not what I was thinking. Here's the scheme in detail.
Format a track on a floppy; doesn't matter which one, so long as both
systems use the same one. Tie only Read Data tied to both the local and
the remote systems and leave the drive selected and the motor on (index
doesn't reallly matter as long as you've got. Write any sector on the
track (or all of them if you want) with the local system. Periodically
read the same sectors with the remote system. You'd have to use some sort
of sequence numbering scheme and some built-in delays to ensure
synchronization, but it ought to work with any data.
Maybe I'll try it one of these days...
Cheers,
Chuck