21 Apr
2005
21 Apr
'05
6:29 p.m.
Just wanted to say thanks for the people who have contributed knowledgebase
articles to the classiccmp knowledgebase (www.classiccmp.org/kb)
I do know that one person here is working on a really good article, should
show up there soon!
So, who wants to spearhead putting in a short knowledgebase article about
hooking HP-IB devices, given the recent discussion :>
Jay West
22 Apr
22 Apr
5:52 a.m.
Jay,
Actually... I was thinking about doing this anyway ;-)
I have a fair amount of HP documentaion, code samples, etc... that could
be used in the KB and would prefer not to completely reinvent the wheel.
If we could legally incorporate some of those works, we'd have a much
more accurate and professional KB.
Does anyone know what HP's position is concerning reproduction of
documentation (circa early 1990's) ? I see some of the earlier stuff
(70's - 80's) on Al's site and assume that HP is OK with reproducing
that stuff. I just don't want to run into problems with newer docs.
QUESTIONS FOR JAY: I have a couple of quetions about implementation. I
can see a subject like HPIB branching into a lot of other areas like a
technical description of the protocol, tutorials, drivers, code
snippets, bus analyzers, instrumentation, GPIB for Linux, etc... I think
those things absolutely should be included in the works. How do we tie
all those things together within the KB? Can you include graphics and
hyperlinks in the KB? Or do we create a web site of HPIB thingy's and
provide links from the KB? How does the author of the KB article
"maintain" the KB?
See ya,
SteveRob
So, who wants to spearhead putting in a short
knowledgebase article about
hooking HP-IB devices, given the recent discussion :>
Jay West
31 Jul
31 Jul
12:14 p.m.
At 08:29 PM 4/21/2005, Jay West wrote:
Just wanted to say thanks for the people who have
contributed knowledgebase articles to the classiccmp knowledgebase (www.classiccmp.org/kb)
I have a suggested topic... "How to bootstrap files to a DOS machine."
It was almost covered in January on the thread "Importing binary files
without removable storage nor non-bundledsoftware". Someone asked me
for this today and I didn't have it at my fingertips. They had a
cast-off laptop whose floppy didn't work, so they wanted to bootstrap
more files to it over the serial port.
I recommended
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/commprog/msk-rcv.bas
Although these days, you need to teach the twenty-sometimes
what Kermit is. Sigh.
- John
1:33 p.m.
Only most twenty-somethings ;) I first used Kermit on a VM/ESA mainframe
when
I was about twelve. 24 now.
John
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Although these days, you need to teach the
twenty-sometimes
what Kermit is. Sigh.
- John
1:42 p.m.
At 03:33 PM 7/31/2005, you wrote:
Only most twenty-somethings ;) I first used Kermit on a
VM/ESA mainframe when
I was about twelve. 24 now.
I found an interesting variation at http://chrio.org/serial/ ,
this fellow uses the stripping and insertion of CTRL/Z to
his advantage! He split his binary into sections deliniated
by any CTRL/Zs in the file, then sent those other pieces
across (checking file sizes by hand and retrying if they
didn't match), then using COPYto rejoin the pieces in a
way to re-insert the CTRL/Z. As always, there's more than
one way to skin the cat.
- John
1:54 p.m.
Although these days, you need to teach the
twenty-sometimes
what Kermit is. Sigh.
- John
I still qualify (just) for twenty-something. That's a bit ageist.
I would say though that most of the people on this group who use or
have used Kermit wouldn't be the ones trying to boot a dos laptop. So
it's a moot point.
Dan
11:54 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
I recommended
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/commprog/msk-rcv.bas
Although these days, you need to teach the twenty-sometimes
what Kermit is. Sigh.
Wouldn't it be easier to just issue two MODE commands to redirect COM1: to CON,
then feed debug a script to write out binary files?
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1 Aug
1 Aug
8:53 a.m.
At 01:54 AM 8/1/2005, you wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to just issue two MODE
commands to redirect COM1: to CON, then feed debug a script to write out binary files?
Hey, that's why I think it would be a useful and interesting FAQ.
I thought the other guy's CTRL/Z preservation method was quite
cute, too. I'm intrigued by solutions that would require a
minimum of prep or magic tools on the sending PC.
- John
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