Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!robohack!hybrid!mdapoz
From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Can the Casio BOSS talk to my Unix workstation?
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.032511.29214@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 03:25:11 GMT
References: <25152@usc.edu>
Organization: The Home for Unemployed Basselopes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <25152@usc.edu> ami@kodkod.usc.edu (Ami Motro) writes:
>I want the BOSS to communicate with my Unix workstation instead.
>
>Any suggestions?  Does Casio divulge such information?
>The company that provided the connector and the associated PC software
>would not give such information.

I tried getting an official protocol spec from both Casio and Travelling
Software, both of which told me it was proprietary and couldn't be
revealed.  Being determined to get my SF-900 to talk to my unix system,
I spent a bit of time working out the protocol and implementing a library
to communicate with the SF-9000.  I have it more or less done, it's just
the documentation needs a bit more work so I've been reluctant to post it.
I will however make it available to anyone who requests it.  The code
also includes a simple yacc grammer which can be used to program the
BOSS from a unix system.
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