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From: zlraa@iceman.jcu.oz (Ross Alford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Serial comms on ATARI PortFolio?
Summary: PLEASE provide bootstrap routine
Message-ID: <1083@iceman.jcu.oz>
Date: 18 Oct 90 08:05:46 GMT
References: <688@philica.ica.philips.nl> <1990Oct15.153731.5200@momenta>
Organization: JCUNQ, Townsville, Qld, Australia
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In article <1990Oct15.153731.5200@momenta>, jims@momenta (Jim Straus) writes:
>    Other software IS needed.  You need XTerm2, which is available from a
> number of bulletin boards and also on the DOS Utilities ROM card from Atari.
> If you find it on a bulletin board, there are usually some utilities that
> allow you to bootstrap the program in through the serial port.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If such exist, could someone PLEASE post a uuencoded version, either to
this group or directly to me, or point me to an FTP source?  I have been
vacillating about buying a Portfolio for about 1 year now, and most of
the cause of my uncertainty relates to the inability to communicate
through the serial port.  I have a copy of Xterm, but it came without the
bootstrap routines, and I haven't yet worked out how to bootstrap it,
since simply copying from and to COM is not supposed to work with binary
files.

I have thought about buying the Port and serial card, borrowing a parallel
card long enough to transfer Xterm, but then I will inevitably have a
system crash that erases it from the RAM disk.

Thanks,
Ross Alford
zlraa@mailin.jcu.edu.au