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From: hburford@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM (Harry Burford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Serial comms on ATARI PortFolio?
Message-ID: <707@enint.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 90 12:55:00 GMT
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Organization: NCR Corporation, Wichita, KS
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geertj@philica.ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot) writes:

|>I hope anyone found how to get this in working order:
|>I bought an ATARI PortFolio, and a serial port option. I need communication
|>with another host (SUN) via the serial port to transfer files both ways,
|>to and from the PortFolio.

|>The glossy sheet tells 'the serial interface can be used to communicate
|>with other computers'. How this is done is not told in the glossy sheet.
|>The salesguy told me he didn't know how to do this, so I have the machine
|>8 days on trial to find out how to do it. The manual doesn't spend a single
|>word on this; it does spend an overwhelming 4 lines of text on PortFolio to
|>PortFolio transfer, but that's it.
|>Geert Jan

I have been using the parallel interface to communicate with the PC
and have been so pleased that I haven't even tried my serial interface
yet.  I had planned to simply download a comm program from the PC using
the parallel interface and then execute that program to run the serial.
The built in comm program is only for the parallel.  Q-MODEM has been
mentioned on the Compu$erve Portfolio forum as a possible comm program.
I was in hopes of using PROCOMM myself.  I wonder if the 'DOS Utilities'
card has a comm program on it.  You might call Atari.

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