>From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini_at_congressfinancial.com>
>
>Dwight:
>
> I have a working N* Horizon system (dual drive, 56k RAM, monitor in
>ROM) and would be happy to lend my testing services.
>
> From time to time, I've wrestled with the same disk image
>manipulation issues for the Altair32 emulator, i.e., manipulating the disk
>image outside of the emulation environment itself. My conclusion was that
>there's no substitute for using the original OS for maniuplating the images.
>So, we developed several methods to move program files into and out of the
>emulator by using some home-grown and CP/M-native utilities and the file
>transfer functions of the terminal program on the PC.
>
> I really want to do an external "image management" program but
>haven't found a clean/easy way without essentially re-implementing portions
>of the base OS.
Hi Rich
I've found that it is usually not all that difficult to
do. I've written code to handle DOS files on a non-PC
machine. I have a friend in Germany that has written
code to manipulate files from a Olivetti M20 ( Z8000 machine )
image file on a PC. This is using PCOS ( Olivetti's OS ).
I wrote code to build disk images for the CPM8000 that I got
up and running on the M20 as well. I've always felt that
such activities, although time consuming, pay off later
in the ability to handle new problems.
Dwight
>
>Rich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dwight K. Elvey [mailto:dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com]
>Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 5:23 PM
>To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>Subject: Re: Northstar File Transfer from PC
>
>
>Hi Marvin
> Maybe this isn't exactly what you are looking for
>but I'm currently working on some software to transfer
>entire disk images through the serial port of a H89
>to a PC. I have another friend checking out my first
>version, now. I hope to do a similar things for the
>N*'s as soon as I get one of these machines up and
>running ( on my list of things to do ).
> I suppose that once the image is on the PC, one can
>modify the image to include any new files, one wants
>and then transfer it back to the N*. It isn't a nice
>direct method but my main intent is to get some way
>to send disk images over the net and not specifically
>individual files.
> I haven't fiddled with the N* at all and don't
>know a lot about it. The H89 has a simple monitor that
>I use to hand enter a simple bootstrap program. With
>this, I bring in the rest of the code to run the disk
>drive. Does the N* have a ROM based monitor?
> I also have a similar setup for my Poly88 but that is
>setup for getting code into the Poly88 and tape from the PC.
>I used this to create code to do the various tape
>copying functions. I can read code from a cassette
>tape, transfer it through the serial to the PC and
>later feed it back through the serial to the Poly88
>to write back onto tape. I use a similar bootstrapping
>code to get things started, through the Poly's monitor.
>Dwight
>
>
>>From: "Marvin Johnston" <marvin_at_rain.org>
>>
>>What is the procedure for transfering files to and from a PC using N*
>>DOS? For text from the N* to the PC, no problem, just print it out to
>>the terminal (a DOS machine) and capture it. But what about going the
>>other way, wanting to get information back to the N*? Any information
>>appreciated!
>>
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