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From: jims@momenta (Jim Straus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Atari Portfolio
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.170934.28298@momenta>
Date: 7 Aug 90 17:09:34 GMT
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SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie) writes:

>> Second, I have a Mac, not a PC, so I don't have a normal
>> parellel port.  Can I still upload from a Portfolio to my
>> Mac?  Do I need to buy a serial port option or something
>> like that?

>Atari does not provide software to use the serial port for downloading
>and uploading stuff. So you'll have to find a friend with a PC that you
>can use to get the serial port transfer software that can talk to your
>mac to the Atari.
>-- 
>===============================================================================
>Roger Ivie

That is not true.  There is XTerm2, which is a public domain terminal program
with XModem file transfer for the Portfolio.  It works fine with the Mac.
You will just need to purchase or build an appropriate cable and use some
simple terminal program on the Mac side.  XTerm is available through many
dealers, bulletin boards, Compuserve, and GEnie to name a few.  Atari also
sells it on one of their utility cards.

-Jim Straus